US President Donald Trump’s real estate mogul friend Steve Witkoff and son-in-law Jared Kushner, whom Trump has appointed as his special peace envoys, are expected to finally visit Kyiv, after already having met with Russian envoys several times, including in Moscow. Can their diplomatic efforts succeed in bringing Russia and Ukraine to the negotiating table? “I wouldn’t even call them diplomatic efforts. These are business efforts, by businessmen close to Trump. These aren’t diplomats,” Bohdan Nahaylo, Editor-in-Chief of the Kyiv Post, told TVP World.JOIN US ON TELEGRAMFollow our coverage of the war on the @Kyivpost_official. “They’ve been negotiating with Moscow to get the best deal possible for the Trump administration and to grab as much of Ukrainian mineral wealth as they can as a price for helping Ukraine out.” “I think it would be very embarrassing for them to appear,” particularly ahead of the 35th anniversary of Ukraine’s independence, he added. “I can understand Zelensky has to go through the motions to try and keep Trump engaged. But for most Ukrainians, this is fairly disgusting because they don’t treat them as diplomats.”