Russia and Ukraine agreed on a large-scale prisoner exchange, said they would trade ideas on a possible ceasefire and discussed a potential meeting between Volodymyr Zelensky and Vladimir Putin in ...

Germany, France, the U.K. and Poland outmaneuvered the Kremlin by persuading Ukraine’s Zelensky to accept Trump’s cease-fire ...

All of which is to say that Trump’s declining optimism is indicative of where the war is at this stage. If progress continues ...