Vladimir Putin's failure to head to Turkey for peace talks with Volodymyr Zelenskyy appears to have exposed his total lack of desire to end the war in Ukraine. Chatham House's Orysia Lutsevych analyses whether Donald Trump will finally acknowledge that and act accordingly, walk away from the situation entirely, or merely blindly continue his warm relationship with the Kremlin.

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Trump, Zelensky and the consequences of Putin’s no-show