Before the Anchorage summit between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin, the biggest fear for Ukraine was that the American and Russian presidents would emerge brandishing a “peace agreement”. Trump’s pre-summit talk of “land swaps” suggested that America might agree to Ukraine permanently ceding territory to Russia against the backdrop of a resumption of US-Russian business ties.

It’s clear that there are sort of discrepancies,” a E.U. official told my colleague Ellen Francis, referring to internal U.S. acceptance of European red lines regarding Ukraine, “and as we’ve seen it in the U.