There has never been a diplomatic deployment in such a constellation as in the peace talks about Ukraine in Washington on Monday. Right after his meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Alaska last Friday, US President Donald Trump originally invited only Ukrainian counterpart Wolodymyr Selenskyj. According to his own statements, he wanted to discuss directly which solution would be possible to terminate the war – assignment of areas that were conquered by international law to Russia, the whole of Donbass and the Crimea, including.