Presidents of two great powers are meeting in Alaska. This is after a lapse of six years that a Russian and an American President will have a one-on-one summit, with the war on Ukraine being the sole agenda item. One of the presidents seeks peace in Ukraine, while the other brings to the negotiating table the conditions that must be met before any peace agreement is reached. Let there be no mistake that nothing substantial will come out of this summit. I say this because of the pre-summit positions that all four stakeholders — the United States, Russia, Ukraine as well as Europe — have taken on the conflict.

The key question that President Vladimir Putin brings to the summit, scheduled in Alaska, is, what does President Donald Trump think about the Russian demands? Putin has not taken one

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