Former Zelenskyy adviser analyses US-Ukraine relations in the wake of Trump phonecall | DW News

US president Donald Trump has said that Russia and Ukraine will start negotiations for a ceasefire immediately. That's after the US president turned to high-stakes telephone diplomacy, holding a two-hour conversation with Russian president Vladimir Putin on Monday. Trump said the conversation went very well, while his Russian counterpart said moving Moscow and Kyiv towards peace would take time.

00:00 US president Donald Trump is optimistic that Russia will commit to ceasefire negotiations with Ukraine very soon

03:17 DW Washington correspondent Misha Komadovsky speaks to Igor Novikov, former adviser to Ukraine’s President Zelenskyy

10:18 Mark Galeotti, director of the consultancy Mayak Intelligence and author of the book "Forged in War: a military history of Russia from its beginnings to today"

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Post from DW News on May 20, 2025

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