US Envoys Arrive in Moscow Today With 'a Proposal to End the War'
Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner travel to Moscow today to meet Mr Putin, then on to Kyiv — and they are not travelling empty-handed. “They are bringing with them a proposal to end the war,” President Trump said, blaming the deadlock on a “personality problem”: the two leaders “truly hate each other… and it’s getting in the way.” Notably, no Russian attack on Kyiv was reported overnight — and no Ukrainian “mirror” strike either. The toll from Friday’s SBU headquarters strike rose to twelve injured.
The overnight silence over Kyiv is the first genuine signal in days: after a fortnight of nightly bombardment and a drone in the security chief’s window, both sides holding fire on the eve of talks suggests each wants the weekend to produce something — or wants the blame for failure worn by the other. What the “proposal” contains is unknown, and the war’s arithmetic explains the scepticism: Russia gained barely ninety square kilometres in August at enormous cost, yet Mr Putin has conceded nothing on territory, and Kyiv’s intelligence expects another three-hundred-thousand-man conscription within weeks. Mr Trump reducing a continental war to a “personality problem” is either naivety or a negotiator’s framing that lets both sides climb down without losing. Watch Sunday’s Kyiv leg — whether it happens at all is the weekend’s first verdict.