And for more, let's turn now to Andrew Weiss.

He's a former State Department official who served in the George H.W. Bush and Clinton administrations.

He's now Vice President for Studies at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.

Thank you for being with us.

Great to be with you.

So in agreement to keep the talks going, potentially in Moscow, we'll see what happens.

What's your early assessment of this summit and what it yielded?

I think there was a lot of focus, a lot of overinflated expectations going into today's

meeting. President Trump, at the beginning of the week, said, oh, I'm just going to feel Putin out.

And then later on, yesterday I was saying it was a 75% likelihood of a big breakthrough. What we saw just now is that Vladimir

Putin stuck to his guns. That is the same Vladimir Putin who has been saying that Ukraine's

not a real country. He repeated that point today. It's the same Vladimir Putin who said that

the war will only end if the root causes are addressed, which is code for the U.S. and NATO security

presence in Europe.

It's code for cooperation between Western countries and Ukraine.

It's a denial of Ukraine's legitimacy to exist.

It's the same Vladimir Putin who has been stringing Donald Trump all along.

They alluded to some kind of deal that they are at least

going to shop to the Ukrainians and the Europeans, but we'll see what the elements of that are.

Last week's Russian proposal was a sham, and we'll see if this deal survives close scrutiny.

So in your view, this doesn't amount to progress.

This is Putin buying more time.

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