AT first sight, Friday’s summit meeting between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin came to no clear conclusion.

But the Russian leader has cunningly laid a trap, hoping that Volodymyr Zelensky is the one to say “No” to President Trump’s peace plan.

Since Alaska, Trump has shifted from demanding an immediate ceasefire to calling for immediate and full peace agreement.

This is what Putin wants — to bounce Zelensky into a take-it-or-leave-it deal. But what would peace be like? To be sure, Putin knows what he means by peace — Ukraine surrenders to his key demands.

Kyiv gives up a swathe of territory to Russia. It abandons any hope of integrating into Western institutions such as Nato or the EU.

And it disarms so it cannot repeat the tough fight it has put up since February 2022, in case Ru

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