After three years of grinding war, American diplomats emerged from the Kremlin carrying what may be the most consequential set of proposals yet offered toward ending the conflict in Ukraine. Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner, bearing the weight of a war that has consumed hundreds of thousands of lives and reshaped the European order, now turn toward Kyiv — where the harder conversation may only be beginning. History rarely announces its turning points in advance, but the simultaneous pause in strikes on both capitals suggests that even the combatants sense something fragile and significant is in