Political messages don’t get much blunter than the Russian missiles that slammed into an American-owned manufacturing firm overnight Wednesday in western Ukraine, hundreds of miles away from the frontline trenches of a war with no end in sight.

The attack, part of the most intense Russian drone and missile strikes on Ukraine in more than a month, punctuated Moscow’s brick-wall diplomacy, which is grinding President Donald Trump’s peace effort to a halt.

It’s a week since Trump applauded Russian President Vladimir Putin down a red carpet in Alaska. The US president has orchestrated spectacles and statesmanlike photo-ops with European leaders, and the White House has proclaimed stunning breakthroughs. But the underlying realities of the war have barely changed.

Russia is still bombing a

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