India, Aug. 16 -- A day after US President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin held high-level talks, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Saturday talked peace and "readiness to work with maximum effort" to achieve that. Though not much information was revealed, Trump and Putin' talks were defined as "productive".

Also victory for Putin

Politics, particularly geopolitics, is all about optics and there were plenty of that in Alaska where the two presidents met. Analysts saw the reception Putin received as a big leg-up and return to a place of power in the world. The much-anticipated summit began with a warm welcome and a flyover by jets at a US military base in Alaska.

After about 2 1/2 hours of talks in Anchorage, ...