Trump-Putin Call Yields No Breakthrough on Ukraine Cease-Fire

 https://www.wsj.com/world/trump-holds-call-with-russias-putin-on-ending-the-war-in-ukraine-d0d934af?mod=hp_lead_pos4

Russian President Vladimir Putin refused to agree to an immediate cease-fire with Ukraine in a two-hour call Monday with President Trump, who said afterward that Moscow and Kyiv would resume direct talks on an agreement to halt the fighting.