The Russia-Ukraine peace process is going exactly how Moscow wants it to: slowly

By Nick Paton Walsh, CNN Analysis: In the end, it is the Kremlin's plan playing out, and there appears to be little the White House will do about it. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky's decision to send defence minister Rustam Umerov to meet with a low-level Russian delegation in Istanbul was a difficult choice forced by necessity. Its audience is one man: US President Donald Trump. Kyiv must show it is willing to take any step at all to foster any kind of peace, or else it risks Trump slow