Witkoff, Kushner to attend Ukraine Coalition of the Willing meeting
POLITICO - Monday, January 5, 2026PARIS — U.S. Special Envoy Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner — U.S. President Donald Trump’s son-in-law — will travel to Paris and attend a meeting of Ukraine’s allies on Tuesday, an Elysée official told reporters on Monday.
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio will not be there “for obvious reasons,” the official added, referring to the situation in Venezuela.
“We have strived to bring the Americans closer to us, never resigning ourselves to the U.S. abandoning Ukraine. We have succeeded in this exercise of reconvergence between Ukraine, Europe, and America,” the official stressed.
Last week, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy met with Trump in Florida, with the Ukrainian leader pitching a 20-point peace plan that would see the U.S. provide security guarantees to Kyiv and the country’s eastern Donbas region turned into a free economic zone.
On Tuesday, around 27 leaders, NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte as well as the alliance’s top military officer, Gen. Alexus Grynkewich, will gather in the French capital in the so-called Coalition of the Willing format.
Paris and London, co-leading the Coalition of the Willing, want to discuss and find common ground on five points, according to the Elysée official: How a ceasefire between Russia and Ukraine would be monitored; support for Ukraine’s military; a multinational reassurance force in Ukraine once the war ends; commitments to support Kyiv if a ceasefire is violated by Moscow; and long-term defense cooperation deals with Ukraine.
Chiefs of defense also discussed security guarantees for Ukraine on Monday.