“Russia’s war in Ukraine is stalling — on the battlefield and in the corridors of diplomacy,” the Washington Post reports.“For months, high-ranking Russian officials insisted that a path to ending the war in Ukraine — largely on Moscow’s maximalist terms — had been decided at a meeting between President Vladimir Putin and President Donald Trump last August in Anchorage. Only Ukraine’s intransigence stood as an obstacle.”“But that narrative has unraveled — perhaps because the only way to get the United States to help broker a new deal is admitting there never was a previous one.”