Russian President Vladimir Putin appears on as he meets with college students on the Sirius Academic Heart in Sochi on Could 19, 2025, after a phone dialog with US President Donald Trump.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin appears on as he meets with college students on the Sirius Academic Heart in Sochi on Could 19, 2025, after a phone dialog with US President Donald Trump.
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President Trump needs to make a take care of Vladimir Putin to finish the struggle in Ukraine. Putin says Russia needs to interact in peace talks, however Putin has additionally been ordering essentially the most widespread and violent aerial assaults on Ukraine in years. This has led Trump to criticize Putin increasingly in public — a step that is been uncommon over the course of Trump’s two phrases in workplace.
Three years into his struggle on Ukraine, what does Putin really need? It is a query leaders all over the world try to determine.
To be taught extra, NPR’s Scott Detrow speaks with Angela Stent, Professor Emeritus at Georgetown College, Senior Fellow on the Brookings establishment — a nonpartisan coverage group in Washington DC — and creator of the e-book “Putin’s World: Russia Against the West and With the Rest.
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