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Zelensky's Kushner Briefing Looks Like a Hostage Video

Jared Kushner sat with Putin in a televised Kremlin meeting. Later he briefed Volodymyr Zelensky outside a building on an Irish military airfield, and 71 seconds of it drew close to 29,000 likes.

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Zev Shalev
Nov 13, 2026
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Volodymyr Zelensky stood outside a low building on an Irish military airfield late Thursday, in a black jacket, with soldiers in camouflage behind him. Jared Kushner stood at his shoulder and talked. Zelensky looked at the ground, then straight ahead, and in the clip he said nothing.

The account @NatalkaKyiv posted the 71 seconds at 7:36 p.m. Eastern with the line "Watch President Zelenskyy's face." By midday Friday the post had close to 29,000 likes. Ed Krassenstein reposted the video and wrote that Zelensky "looks like he's being held hostage by the Trump administration."

Kushner had come straight from a very different room.

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