"On that Oct. 22 flight, Kushner and Witkoff pivoted from discussing the Gaza deal they'd helped deliver to the war in Ukraine. Trump imposed sanctions on Russia that same day for the first time since returning to office, and the peace process was almost entirely stuck. The pair wanted to repeat their approach from Gaza - draft a plan, put it on the table, and figure out how to get both sides to agree."
"Three days later, Witkoff and Kushner met President Vladimir Putin's envoy Kirill Dmitriev for dinner in Miami, and again for several hours on Sunday. The Russian envoy, who also heads Russia's sovereign wealth fund, told Axios in a Nov. 17 interview that they'd worked to put understandings reached in the Trump-Putin summit in Alaska down on paper. The goal was to produce a framework "basically saying, 'How do we really bring, finally, lasting security to Europe, not just Ukraine,'" Dmitriev said."
On Oct. 22, during a flight back to Miami, Kushner and Witkoff shifted focus from the Gaza deal to the war in Ukraine and began drafting a potential plan. That same day President Trump imposed sanctions on Russia as negotiations stalled. Three days later Kushner and Witkoff met Vladimir Putin's envoy Kirill Dmitriev in Miami to translate summit understandings into a framework aimed at securing Europe, not only Ukraine. Those meetings produced the initial draft of a 28-point U.S. plan. Vance tapped Army Secretary Dan Driscoll to bring the plan to Ukraine, and Kushner and Witkoff met Ukrainian adviser Rustem Umerov, with Zelensky joining by phone.
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