The CIA director’s proposal for a trilateral meeting has put diplomacy back on the agenda, but Moscow and Kyiv still fundamentally disagree over when negotiations should begin and how the war might end. There was something reminiscent of cold war diplomacy in CIA director John Ratcliffe’s secret trip to Moscow: the intelligence chief did not arrive for public ceremony, but to use back channels to test whether a path to negotiations...

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