Within a single day, two American envoys crossed the distance between Moscow and Kyiv — a journey that is as much symbolic as geographic — carrying words from one warring leader to another. Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner, men shaped more by business and political proximity than by diplomatic tradition, sat first with Vladimir Putin and then with Volodymyr Zelensky, enacting a form of shuttle diplomacy that signals Washington believes the contours of a settlement may at last be worth exploring. Whether this moment becomes a turning point or merely another passage in a long and costly war remai