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News that US President Donald Trump will meet Russian President Vladimir Putin in Budapest in a bid to resuscitate talks about ending the war in Ukraine will come as little surprise to Europe and NATO allies.
At a meeting of NATO defence ministers on Wednesday, representatives from NATO countries appeared - unusually- quietly confident about the potential for progress arising from a meeting on Friday between Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
Hope for peace negotiations or a ceasefire in Ukraine had stalled, until Thursday night's announcement from the White House. A lull in talks appeared to have set in after a Trump-Putin meeting in Alaska in August yielded no results.
Trump is said to be frustrated a
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