The US president is reaching throughout the divide and says Russia and Ukraine each need peace.
“That is the start of the top.” That’s the message the US president is sending to the leaders of Russia and Ukraine.
Donald Trump appears assured a deal will be struck to carry a everlasting finish to the three-year battle in Ukraine.
However who will come out on prime?
Trump and Russia’s President Vladimir Putin have plans to satisfy. Is {that a} signal that Ukraine’s chief, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, is perhaps sidelined from the negotiations?
And what about Europe? With Ukrainian NATO membership seemingly off the desk, how can the area’s future safety be assured?
Presenter: Bernard Smith
Friends:
Vladimir Sotnikov – impartial political scientist and affiliate professor of worldwide relations on the Larger College of Economics
Theresa Fallon – founder and director of the Centre for Russia Europe Asia Research
Volodymyr Yermolenko – chief editor at Ukraine World, a multimedia venture overlaying Ukrainian politics
