August 19, 2025
Grading Trump’s Ukraine Diplomacy
The Trump-Putin summit on Friday, followed by Monday’s unprecedented White House meeting with Ukrainian President Zelensky and seven other European leaders, has left analysts wondering whether recent diplomacy will result in an end to hostilities—or if it’s all just pageantry. Andrea Kendall-Taylor, senior fellow and program director at the Center for a New American Security, and Sergey Radchenko sit down with Ravi Agrawal to debrief these two high-level meetings.
Listen to the full interview on Foreign Policy.
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