Give that man a Nobel Peace Prize!

President Donald Trump dropped his demand for a ceasefire in Ukraine and told its president Saturday that Russian President Vladimir Putin wants Ukraine’s eastern Donbas area in exchange for halting the war.

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The summit, which ended with no agreement, was seen as a public relations success for Putin, who was welcomed by Trump after years of Western isolation since Russia’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine.

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After the summit, Trump told Zelensky and other European leaders in a phone call that in addition to land Russia has seized in the war, Putin wants Ukraine to cede all of Donbas in exchange for a promise to freeze the front line elsewhere.

  WaPo

I'm sure Zelensky will be okay with that.

Zelensky has rejected Russian demands to cede Ukrainian land.

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One of the people familiar with the talks said Ukraine would not relinquish Donetsk because it would leave Ukraine wide open to future attacks. “If [Putin] takes over Donbas, he has a clear road all the way to Odesa.”

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The Ukrainian leader and his European partners, including the leaders of Britain, France and Germany, had lobbied the White House to pressure Moscow into a ceasefire before any negotiations.

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Kyiv’s European backers say it cannot negotiate under attack and are wary of a rushed deal that could reshape the continent’s security landscape.

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Before the Alaska summit, European officials expressed guarded optimism that the United States was supporting their demand for a ceasefire along the current line of contact. But after the call Saturday, Trump abandoned it publicly.

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In years of fighting, Russia has been unable to seize all of Donbas. Russian forces occupy almost all of the Luhansk region of Donbas but do not control part of the strategic, fortified Donetsk region.

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Trump also told the Europeans he would be open to providing security guarantees for Ukraine in a deal but the details were unclear.

The devil is in the details. Trump cannot be trusted in any deal. And Ukrainian land is not his to negotiate.

Putin told a meeting of top Russian officials on Saturday that the summit with Trump was “very useful” and “in my opinion, it brings us closer to the right decisions.”

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Zelensky, meanwhile, said he and Trump had a “long and substantive” conversation on Saturday, lasting around an hour, before they were joined on the call by European leaders.

He would meet with Trump “to discuss all of the details regarding ending the killing and the war,” he said, asserting “readiness to work with maximum effort to achieve peace.”

Good luck.

After their call Saturday, the leaders of France, Britain, Germany, Italy, Poland, Finland and the European Union said they stood “ready to work” for the trilateral summit “with European support.”

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They vowed to keep supporting Kyiv and pressuring Moscow.

They said there could be no limitations on Ukraine’s military, no “Russia veto” in its ambitions to join the E.U. or NATO, and that it remained “up to Ukraine to make decisions on its territory.”

By the way...

Papers with U.S. State Department markings, found Friday morning in the business center of an Alaskan hotel, revealed previously undisclosed and potentially sensitive details about the Aug. 15 meetings between President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir V. Putin in Anchorage.

Eight pages, that appear to have been produced by U.S. staff and left behind accidentally, shared precise locations and meeting times of the summit and phone numbers of U.S. government employees.

  NPR

And to think, if they were halfway competent, we'd be in an even worse condition.