A truce is always better than no truce, and that includes the ceasefire which Ukraine – after discussions with the United States in Saudi Arabia and its president Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s “very good” phonecall with President Donald Trump – says it’s ready to comply with, provided that Russia does so too.
It’s also good that the Americans and Ukrainians are talking at all, after President Donald Trump so contemptuously dressed down Zelenskyy in the Oval Office earlier this month. But the Ukrainian president is right to remain wary of the coming peace deal as his American counterpart seems to envision it.
