As Ukraine steps up its attacks deep inside Russian territory, Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has accused the United States of supporting Kyiv with intelligence. He has threatened to destroy western supplies heading to Ukraine, and rejected a Turkish-backed proposal for a ceasefire on the Black Sea.
Almost a year since presidents Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin broke the US-Russia freeze and met in Anchorage, Alaska, there’s no sign of progress in talks to broker a lasting peace in Ukraine.
DW’s Ben Fajzullin talks to Eugene Rumer, director of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace’s Russia and Eurasia Program. He says diplomacy is not dead but "comatose," and sees few options on the horizon but a continuation of a long, grinding conflict that could leave Ukrainian cities uninhabitable.
Chapters
0:00 Intro
0:41 Lavrov pressures Washington over support for Ukraine
1:27 What Lavrov’s rhetoric signals
2:52 US-Russia relations cool despite Trump-Putin ties
4:11 Ukraine diplomacy stalls as fighting escalates
6:18 What could actually change Putin’s calculations?
8:08 Trump-Putin relationship and pressure on Russia
10:18 Why peace talks remain stuck over territory
14:02 Russia and Ukraine prepare for a longer war
15:09 Russian public opinion and repression of anti-war voices
17:56 Ukraine’s biggest vulnerability: missile defense
19:05 Winter attacks could make Ukrainian cities unlivable
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