FinancialJuice: US Envoy Kushner: The diesel deal is an effort to soften Russia.

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According to three people familiar with the meeting, Trump's envoys told Ukrainian officials on Friday that a deal to allow Russian diesel exports is part of a bid to entice Russia back into negotiations after previous attempts to launch sustained talks to end the war were unsuccessful.According to two people who spoke on the condition of anonymity, Trump's Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff and son-in-law Kushner told the Ukrainians in a meeting in Miami that Russian President Vladimir Putin was unwilling to negotiate an end to his 4 1/2-year-old war in Ukraine, and that the deal announced last week could help restart trilateral talks.