New Delhi, Dec. 21 -- Trump Delivers What Europe Couldn't: Peace on Moscow's Terms

MIAMI - Beneath the palm trees and manicured fairways of a private golf club here, a quiet but seismic shift in the Ukraine war took shape on Saturday as Kirill Dmitriev, President Vladimir Putin's special envoy for economic cooperation, touched down for direct talks with two of President Donald J. Trump's most trusted lieutenants: Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner. The arrival of the Kremlin's point man, confirmed by Russian state media and Western wire services alike, comes mere hours after Ukraine's top security official, Rustem Umerov, declared his own delegation's meetings with American and European counterparts concluded, with only the most opaque of o...