An Excellent Writeup By Larry ...

... with only one objections--404 casualties are in millions, not in hundreds of thousands. 

The envoys arrived straight from two days of trilateral talks in Abu Dhabi, which produced a large prisoner exchange and not much else. Putin opened politely. He asked them to thank Donald Trump for helping arrange contacts between Moscow and Kyiv and noted progress on humanitarian issues. He said he wants peace in Ukraine to last “forever.” Then he got to business, in three parts. First, he said the territorial question keeps getting raised from various sides, but for Russia the people matter more. That is a polite way of saying the land question is not open for haggling. Second, he proposed a humanitarian mission in Kostiantynivka, which I’ll come to. Third, he repeated that foreign troops in Ukraine are unacceptable and would be “legitimate targets.” The meeting lasted about two hours. There was no press conference afterward. Yuri Ushakov called the talks “substantive, constructive, frank and useful,” which in Kremlin dialect means nobody moved.

Russians are rubbing hands in anticipation with Konstantinovka plan. Read the whole thing at Larry's blog. Per title, about No Glass of Water--a famous 1840 play The Glass of Water by Eugene Scribe.