By Ingrid "Shortwave" Frost
President Donald Trump is sending two familiar faces back into the middle of a war that has resisted every previous attempt to end it. According to Al Jazeera correspondent Kimberly Halkett, Trump is dispatching Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff as envoys to Russia and Ukraine, carrying what the administration is calling a new peace plan.
Both men have served as Trump's go-to negotiators on difficult files. Kushner, the president's son-in-law, has taken on high-stakes diplomatic assignments before. Witkoff has emerged as a recurring envoy on the administration's most sensitive foreign files, including earlier rounds of talks connected to the Ukraine war.
The source reporting does not detail the plan's specific terms, and no confirmation has yet come from Moscow or Kyiv on whether either side views this round differently from the peace efforts that came before it. That is worth naming plainly: this is one report of an envoy mission, not a finished settlement, and the particulars of what's being offered — territory, sanctions relief, security guarantees, timelines — remain undisclosed in what's available here.
What is clear is the signal: the White House is putting its most trusted deal-makers back on a plane toward two capitals that have spent more than three years unable to agree on how to stop killing each other. Whether that effort produces anything more than another round of talks is, as always in this war, a question only the fighting itself will answer.
— Compiled from reporting by Al Jazeera.
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