Eismant Hopes Trump’s Son-In-Law’s Belarusian Roots Will Help Bring An End To The Russia-Ukraine War

Reform.news Editorial Team · 15 November 2026, 14:28

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Belarus hopes that the background of Jared Kushner, son-in-law of US President Donald Trump, could play a positive role in negotiations to end the Russia-Ukraine war. Lukashenka’s press secretary Natallia Eismant made the remarks in a comment to Russian propagandist Pavel Zarubin, TASS reports.

“We have known for a long time that Kushner is originally from Belarus. Could this help? There is no room for any value judgments here. But the fact that these people are involved in the process can at least give us hope. These people are involved so actively and so deeply, and of course, we can only hope that our Belarusian roots will come into play,” she said.

Kushner’s grandfather was from Poland, while his grandmother, Rae Kushner, lived in Belarus during World War II and was imprisoned in the Navahrudak Ghetto. On September 26, 1943, she took part in a mass escape from the ghetto alongside other prisoners. Rae Kushner later joined a Jewish partisan unit led by Tuvia Bielski, which operated in the Navahrudak area and rescued Jews from extermination. It was there that she met her future husband. The Navahrudak Museum of Local History previously reported that in 1989 Kushner visited Navahrudak with his father, Charles, a town closely linked to his family’s history.

The Russian news programme Vesti reports that US representatives involved in the negotiations in Abu Dhabi have Belarusian roots. The report specifically mentions US presidential special envoy Steve Witkoff, Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner and NATO’s Supreme Allied Commander Europe Alexus Grynkewich. It noted that they have Slavic ancestry.