What would it take for Putin to stop fighting in Ukraine?

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  President Donald Trump and his envoys are anxious for peace between Russia and Ukraine to be settled.

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  Negotiations are continuing at a crawl,

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  and Ukraine's President Vladimir Zelensky has been unwilling throughout the negotiating process to accept key elements of Trump's proposal.

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  And I think we're closer now, and they will tell you that they're closer now.

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  numerous conversations with President Putin of Russia.

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  And I think we're closer now than we have been ever.

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  Vladimir Putin is Sphinx-like in Moscow.

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  It's hard to read what he makes in the negotiations.

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  Whether he wants to make a peace deal,

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  or if he's content to continue the war while Russia has momentum on the battlefield.

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  And from outside Russia, the views of ordinary Russians are equally hard to read.

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