International peace talks over Ukraine, once the mechanism by which Mr. Putin forced contact with Western leaders who had shunned him over annexing Crimea, have become increasingly regarded as fruitless and irrelevant.
普京先生曾通过乌克兰问题国际和平会谈机制迫使因俄罗斯吞并克里米亚而回避他的西方领导人与其接触，现在这种会谈机制已经变得越来越徒劳无用。