# Kushner joins Witkoff-Putin meeting remotely, Kremlin tells TASS

https://mins.news/en/item/109376

- TASS, 2026-10-21 11:36 UTC
- World
- Original: https://tass.com/politics/2205407

> Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told TASS that US envoy Jared Kushner joined remotely as special envoy Steve Witkoff met Russian President Vladimir Putin in St. Petersburg to discuss a settlement in Ukraine. Kushner missed the trip because of illness and did not take part in Witkoff’s talks with Vladimir Zelensky in Oslo the previous day.

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