"Donald Trump has heard Vladimir Putin - a bad sign for warmongers."
This is how Russia's most watched TV Channel, Channel One, opened its noon news programme the day after a phone call between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin.
Make no mistake, three-and-a-half years after Moscow launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, warmongers are in the European Union, according to the Kremlin.
The preparation for the possible summit in Hungary between the US and Russian leaders "will begin in the coming days" Vladimir Putin’s aide Yury Ushakov told the press.
Peace efforts have stalled since their last meeting in Alaska two months ago.
It may seem that Russia’s president "has agreed" to move things forward and have a fresh summit after Mr Trump threatened to supply Tomahawks to Ukraine.
However, there is no need to twist Mr Putin's arm.
A face-to-face meeting with the US leader is arguably his favourite thing to do. It is seen as a major win for the previously isolated authoritarian leader, further elevating his stance on the global stage.
The meeting itself doesn't mean he is ready to end the war any time soon - certainly not on the conditions favourable to the people of Ukraine.
In the past few months, the US leader has apparently come to discover Mr Putin's negotiating formula - flattery followed by evasion and inaction.
Despite this, in the pro-Kremlin media coverage, Donald Trump is portrayed as an agreeable ally following Moscow's lead - in juxtaposition to "warmongering" Europeans.
"All of us here agree that Russia is going to win in this conflict," one of the political commentators said in a daily three-hour-long current affairs talk show Time Will Tell on Channel One this morning.
Europe now "comes to the realisation that it had bet on a horse that would lose," the panelists went on to debate.
The UK's Prime Minister and the German Chancellor got most of the verbal bashing for "moving the locomotive of war", which implies their commitment to support Ukraine militarily in its defence against Russia.
"The coalition of losers" is another term used to describe Kyiv's allies in a clear reference to "the coalition of the willing", a group with peacekeeping intentions in post-war Ukraine.
The commentators on Time Will Tell alleged that French President Emmanuel Macron is on the fence when it comes to supporting Ukraine, while praise was sung for the leaders of Slovakia and Hungary.
In his Friday piece 'Europe is left empty-handed', a political columnist for Komsomolskaya Pravda celebrated the new round of US-Russia talks suggesting that all of Ukraine's European allies are side-lined in the negotiation.
The brewing division among the EU states in relation to the war in Ukraine, is another widely celebrated reason for speculation by the Russian media and politicians.
The Kremlin’s key negotiator with the US, Kirill Dmitriev, called Budapest "a perfect location" for the summit saying that "Hungary has always been the voice of wisdom and peacekeeping in Europe".
One might wonder what meaning the Kremlin puts in the word "peace" after annexing a fifth of its neighbour's territory.
