Playbook: “The silence from Putin is still deafening, 10 days on from his tête-à-tête with Trump in Alaska. Trump had initially hoped a follow-up summit with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky could happen within hours, then within days … Then last Friday he gave Putin a(nother) couple of weeks. But there have been no positive noises from the Kremlin.”
Putin’s top envoy Sergey Lavrov told NBC News there were no plans to meet with Zelensky.
New York Times: Trump relies on personal diplomacy with Putin. The result is a strategic muddle.

