Gaza cease-fire diplomacy

Axios reports that Steve Witkoff’s ultra‑exclusive Shell Bay club outside Miami has become a de facto hub for U.S. diplomacy on Ukraine and Gaza, hosting back‑to‑back high‑level meetings this weekend among Ukrainian, European and Russian representatives on a U.S. peace plan, as well as talks with Qatari, Egyptian and Turkish officials on the Gaza cease-fire’s second phase. The article recounts how key drafts of Trump’s Ukraine proposal were written at Shell Bay with Russian envoy Kirill Dmitriev, details repeated visits by Ukraine’s national security chief Rustem Umerov, and says Umerov phoned President Zelensky from Miami to relay a U.S. proposal for a trilateral U.S.–Ukraine–Russia national security adviser meeting.