Business & Economics
Trump Envoys, Kyiv Extend Florida Peace Talks to Day 3 After Drafting Post-War Security Outline
On 6 Dec 2025, Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner agreed with Ukrainian negotiators to continue negotiations in Hallandale Beach for a third straight day, saying they had sketched a provisional U.S.-backed security framework for Ukraine contingent on Moscow’s buy-in.
Focusing Facts
- The joint statement released 5 Dec confirmed reconvening on 6 Dec, following a five-hour 2 Dec meeting between Witkoff, Kushner and Vladimir Putin at the Kremlin.
- Friday’s session occurred at the Shell Bay Club, a luxury complex owned by envoy Witkoff, after earlier leaks revealed Trump’s 28-point peace blueprint.
- During the same week, Russian drone attacks killed a 12-year-old in Dnipropetrovsk, while Ukraine struck Russia’s Temryuk port and Syzran refinery with drones.
Context
Outsider-led peace drives are not new: in 1995, U.S. negotiator Richard Holbrooke corralled Balkan warlords at an Ohio air base, producing the Dayton Accords after 3½ years of conflict—eerily close to Ukraine’s current four-year mark. The Florida meetings underscore two broader currents: (1) the resurgence of personalised, deal-maker diplomacy—private golf resorts replacing Foggy Bottom conference rooms—and (2) Washington’s decades-long oscillation between NATO-centric security guarantees and ad-hoc bilateral assurances (from the 1994 Budapest Memorandum to today’s draft framework). Whether this moment matters in 2125 hinges on one question: will a Kushner-penned accord durably anchor Ukraine inside a Western security umbrella or echo the ill-enforced guarantees of the 1990s that collapsed in 2014? If the former, it could recalibrate Europe’s security order for a generation; if the latter, it will be a historical footnote illustrating the limits of personality-driven peacemaking in an age of drone warfare and multipolar bargaining.
Perspectives
US & European mainstream outlets
Associated-Press syndicated pieces in Irish, UK and US newspapers — They present the Florida meetings as genuine diplomatic progress brokered by Trump’s envoys while stressing that any breakthrough hinges on Russia demonstrating a serious commitment to peace. By recycling the same AP copy they implicitly amplify Trump-team messaging and treat Kushner’s role as statesmanlike, playing down European skepticism and the optics of holding talks at a donor’s luxury resort.
Al Jazeera Online
Al Jazeera Online — It relegates the Florida talks to a short bullet in a broader ‘day-1,381’ war digest, underscoring that the battlefield remains violent and that civilian deaths continue despite diplomacy. Framing the negotiations as just another line item amid Russian strikes can minimize their significance and reflects Al Jazeera’s habitual focus on humanitarian costs and power-politics stalemate over US-led initiatives.
Indian media
Business Standard, The Hindu, India Today — They emphasise steady ‘progress’ in the talks, highlight Kushner’s deal-maker image and fold the story into a wider multipolar narrative that also references India’s energy dealings and Europe’s security demands. By spotlighting diplomatic pragmatism and sidestepping criticism of Trump or Modi, these outlets reflect New Delhi’s preference for balanced relations with Washington and Moscow and therefore avoid dwelling on Russian culpability.