Kluge, in Berlin, doesn’t believe that the Kremlin would accept such an arrangement. “Putin thinks he is winning the war,” Kluge said. “He has all the leverage.” A ceasefire would blunt his momentum and allow Ukraine to shore up its defenses. “And once you stop a war it becomes hard to start it again.”

The divide between the U.S. and our allies is growing over Russia's war in Ukraine due to President Trump's comments about Ukrainian President Zelenskyy and his refusal to call Russian President Putin a dictator.