“There’s going to be no miracles, no peace deal in a week, and Putin will try to make Trump believe that it is Ukraine that doesn’t want peace,”

Putin wants to dupe Trump by pandering to the US president’s self-image as a peacemaker to avoid further economic sanctions, while the Russian leader seeks a major military breakthrough in eastern Ukraine, Taras said.

That said, I just heard there’ll be an online meeting with Zelenskyy and other European politicians before Donny meets Vlad. It’s not much. Frankly it doesn’t make me at all more optimistic. But it is something.