Politico has learned who conducted secret negotiations with Zelensky's political opponents.
According to sources, American journalist Tucker Carlson, Trump's special envoy Steve Witkoff, and US President Donald Trump Jr.'s son and son-in-law Jared Kushner met with Zelensky's rivals.
The magazine writes that Trump team representatives discussed plans for elections in Ukraine with Zelensky's political opponents, assuming that Zelensky would lose to them despite the existing polls.
As noted in the article, the main goal of such negotiations was to create an alternative center of influence and show that the United States has other Ukrainian partners and can support alternative political forces.
