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The Ukraine Peace Push Is Theater. Putin's Bombs Are the Review.
9/12/2026
The envoys landed. The meetings were "substantive." Trump told reporters Putin "is wanting to make a deal." And then, hours after Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff left Kyiv, Russia ended its three-day pause on strikes and killed five people in a new missile and drone barrage on th…
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