Putin’s refusal to budge one iota from his maximalist demands raises the question of what the duo achieved in their many previous visits to Moscow.
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Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky walks with Jared Kushner and U.S. Special Envoy Steve Witkoff, amid Russia’s attack on Ukraine, in Kyiv, Ukraine, September 6, 2026.
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By the time Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner set foot in Kyiv this past Sunday, the two men had logged more jet miles to and from Moscow than most old Russian hands log in a career.
Until this trip, neither man had visited the country whose survival is the subject of all their Moscow shuttle diplomacy.
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Gregory W. Slayton is a former senior U.S. diplomat, chairman of Slayton Capital, and author of Portraits of Ukraine: A Nation at War.
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Sergei Ivashenko is a co-author of the recent bestseller “Portraits of Ukraine a Nation at War,” which gives all profits from book sales to pro-Ukrainian charities.
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By the time Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner set foot in Kyiv this past Sunday, the two men had logged more jet miles to and from Moscow than most old Russian hands log in a career.
Until this trip, neither man had visited the country whose survival is the subject of all their Moscow shuttle diplomacy.
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About the Author
Gregory W. Slayton is a former senior U.S. diplomat, chairman of Slayton Capital, and author of Portraits of Ukraine: A Nation at War.
About the Author
Sergei Ivashenko is a co-author of the recent bestseller “Portraits of Ukraine a Nation at War,” which gives all profits from book sales to pro-Ukrainian charities.
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