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Steve Witkoff’s go-it-alone diplomacy is frustrating US and European officials  Politico Playbook: Fired up, ready to go again  Politico Did the White House Not Understand What Putin Was Really Offering?  The Atlantic The ‘land swap’ that wasn’t: Inside Trump’s frantic dash for Ukraine peace  Reuters Post-Alaska summit, there’s still no end in sight to the war in Ukraine: From the Politics Desk  NBC News Source …

President Donald Trump’s special envoy to the Middle East botched a sitdown with Russian President Vladimir Putin earlier this week. During the Wednesday meeting, Special Envoy Witkoff mistook Putin’s demand for a “peaceful withdrawal” of Ukrainian forces from Kherson and Zaporizhzhia as a proposed concession from Putin to pull back Russian troops in the regions, according to German tabloid the …