Residents deal with the aftermath of Russian missile and drone strikes on a residential building in Kyiv on November 25. According to city authorities, at least six people were killed and 13 others, including one child, were injured in the nighttime attack, which also led to widespread power outages.

Russian President Vladimir Putin might have been overjoyed by the lopsided “peace plan” that President Donald J. Trump demanded Ukraine accept by this past Thursday.

Not surprisingly, that deadline came and went without Ukraine’s submission to a proposal that was unacceptable not only to that besieged country, but to Europe, NATO, the United States and global security.

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It was as if Mr. Trump was so determined to burnish his self-fashioned image as a peacemaker that he was willing to sell out Ukraine and our allies and reward Mr. Putin for twice invading a neighboring nation. (Yes, twice: The world hasn’t forgotten that Russia annexed the Crimean Peninsula in 2014.)

And Mr. Trump proposed that Russia’s aggression be blessed by formally deeding it the lands it has illegally seized — and more. The

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