Putin already seen as winner in US-Russia summit on peace in Ukraine

The countdown to the Putin-Trump summit is on.

The two leaders are due to meet in Alaska to discuss what peace could look like in Ukraine, more than three and a half years after Russia’s invasion.

While Trump has spoken to Ukraine’s Volodymir Zelenskyy ahead of the meeting, European capitals remain apprehensive that a resolution will come from it, and are rallying behind Kyiv.

So, is this latest development in fact, a development at all? Or just posturing by two men desperate to be seen to be doing something.

Today on The Front Page, Kiwi journalist Thomas Mutch joins us from Ukraine to take us through the latest on the frontlines, and behind the scenes.

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