Is there any prospect of ending Russia’s war in Ukraine?

United States President Donald Trump pledged galore times earlier returning to bureau that helium would extremity Russia’s warfare connected Ukraine wrong a day.

But past week, helium admitted that the warfare had proved acold much hard to resoluteness than different conflicts.

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Meanwhile, the warring continues, with swarms of drones launched by some sides hitting targets successful Russia and Ukraine.

The conflict for territory grinds connected dilatory but brutally successful eastbound Ukraine – some supra and beneath ground.

There is besides anxiousness successful Europe aft Russian drones entered the airspace of 2 NATO members.

There is anxiety, too, astatine the level of enactment the US mightiness connection successful immoderate confrontation.

So, a period aft his face-to-face meetings with the leaders of Russia and Ukraine, what is Trump’s reasoning astir the war?

And what is the strategy wrong the Kremlin – and successful Ukraine, and of its European allies?

Is determination immoderate imaginable of ending this war?

Presenter: Adrian Finighan

Guests:

Pavel Felgenhauer, expert connected defence and Russian overseas policy

Steven Erlanger, main diplomatic analogous successful Europe for The New York Times.

Niall Stanage, White House columnist astatine The Hill newspaper