Back in October, at a beautiful waterfront home in Florida, three men quietly came together to try and end a war.

It's three businessmen in a Miami Beach condo hunched over a laptop, redrawing European borders, effectively trying to solve a geopolitical problem.

The key protagonist were Kiro Dmitriev, the head of Russia's sovereign wealth fund,

as well as Jared Kushner, the president's southern law, and Steve Whitkoff, a real estate tycoon that the president has known since the 80s,

who is now Washington's emissary to Moscow effectively.

These men were trying to draft a plan to end the long and deadly conflict between Russia and Ukraine,

a plan that would become the basis of

lengthy peace talks that took place this week. But our colleague Drew Hinshaw says,

when these businessmen met in Miami, peace wasn't the only thing they were negotiating.

That's according to people familiar with the talks.

They're not only drafting a peace plan that in their mind is a way to in the war in Ukraine

on terms Russia can accept. They're also looking at how do we bring in Russia's $2 trillion

economy in from the cold, lowering down sanctions as part of a peace process.

This is highly unorthodox and highly controversial.

That's our colleague Joe Parkinson, who reports with Drew.

Fusing this idea that business should not be something which follows a peace deal,

but something which should be integrated into the negotiation itself.

Over the past few months,

Joe and Drew, along with the team of Wall Street Journal reporters, have been investigating the

Trump administration's approach to negotiations between Russia and Ukraine. And what they found was a

dramatic shift in U.S. diplomatic strategy, particularly when it comes to relations with the Kremlin.

We spoke to dozens of officials over months. We spoke to diplomats. We spoke to former and current

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