We’ve just been hearing from General Sir Richard Shirreff, former deputy supreme allied commander of NATO, who was left unimpressed by the outcomes of the Trump-Putin summit.

He says the US would have been “entirely within their rights” to arrest Vladimir Putin when he landed in Alaska, “put him in an orange jumpsuit and send him off to The Hague in manacles”.

Instead, he says the Americans rolled out the red carpet for the Russian leader despite Putin doing “nothing in any way shape or form” to end the war in Ukraine.

He says the “only way” that Ukraine will get any guarantee to stop Russia achieving its intent of continuing the war is receiving NATO membership.

“Is Putin going to accept that? No. No way. Not a chance. The only way Putin is going to accept that is if he’s forced to accept it,” he says.

“That means that Russia’s got to get a bloody nose and it’s got to be defeated. That is about a million miles away at the moment. So I see no prospect of this thing coming to an end.”

What happens next?

“Well, the war will go on,” Sir Richard adds.

“Ukrainian cities will continue to get drone and missile attacks and Ukrainian civilians will continue to be killed. 

“Meanwhile, the diplomatic dance will continue. Until Trump recognises that the only way to stop this war is to force Russia to accept what the West and what Ukraine wants, then nothing will change.”