Donald Trump keeps insisting that peace in Ukraine is close. Negotiators from the United States, Russia and Ukraine met in Abu Dhabi, their first such meeting in a long time. The Russian delegation, however, showed no signs of wanting to end the war. Instead, Moscow demands that Ukraine and Europe submit to its conditions. Michael Winiarski, who wrote the piece, frames Putin as refusing to give up Russia's demands as the price for peace in Ukraine. That leaves the two sides far apart even as talk of an imminent settlement continues.