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Nov 2024
49m 11s

The Imminent End of the Ukraine War?

THE ROYAL UNITED SERVICES INSTITUTE
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Following Donald Trump's election victory, we ask if this could be the beginning of the end of the fighting in Ukraine.

President-elect Trump has famously claimed he can end the Ukraine war in a day. While there is skepticism about this claim, Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky has recently indicated that Russia's war in Ukraine will end 'faster' when Trump re-enters the White House.

But what would a deal to stop the fighting look like, and what will the implications of a ceasefire be for Ukraine, the Euro-Atlantic community and Russia? Host Neil Melvin sits down with Professor Mark Galeotti, Senior Associate Fellow at RUSI and Director of Mayak Intelligence, and Andriy Zagorodnyuk, the Chairman of the Ukrainian Centre for Defence Strategies think-tank, to answer such questions and more.

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