Alaska. Trump and Putin hold a US-Russia summit to try to launch negotiations to end the war in Ukraine. The summit concludes with great hope from the American president. The next day, there is talk of an urgent alignment with European allies and the Ukrainians, to be finalized on August 20th. But just a few days later, the Russian president dashes expectations: he considers a meeting between himself and Zelensky, the Ukrainian president, premature.
