The uncertain fallout of Putin-Trump meet

The much-hyped summit meeting between Russian President Vladimir Putin and United States President Donald Trump in Alaska on Saturday was not exactly a damp squib it seems to be because it has not changed the ground reality of the Ukrainian war. The war continues.

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Of course, there was no prospect of a ceasefire which Trump had hoped to achieve. It is, to give it a positive spin, an icebreaker. And it was also the first time that Putin broke off his isolation from the Western world ever since he had ordered the invasion of Ukraine in February, 2022. He had visited North Korea and China.

It is now a question of debate and discussion as to what came of it. It seems that something did come out of it. Putin had indicated his terms of agreement to end the war, an unequal division of territory. Russia would yield about 600 sq.km to Ukraine in return for 6,000 sq. km. Will it be acceptable to Ukraine? On the face of it, it does not.