President Donald Trump’s special envoy for Ukraine and Russia was excluded from high-level talks on ending the war after the Kremlin said it didn’t want him there, a U.S. administration official and a Russian official tell NBC News.

On Feb. 11, Trumps special envoy to the Middle East, Steve Witkoff, went to Moscow and spent three-and-a-half hours with Putin.  
There is no official account of their meeting. Witkoff had traveled …