Russian President Vladimir Putin looks after that he meets students at Sirius Educational Center in Sochi on May 19, 2025, after a telephone conversation with US President Donald Trump.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin looks after that he meets students at Sirius Educational Center in Sochi on May 19, 2025, after a telephone conversation with US President Donald Trump.
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President Trump wants to conclude an agreement with Vladimir Putin to end the war in Ukraine. Putin says that Russia wants to engage in peace talks, but Putin has also ordered the most widespread and violent air attacks against Ukraine for years. It led Trump to criticize Putin more and more in public – a step that was rare during the two Mandates of Trump in office.
Three years after his war against Ukraine, what does Putin really want? This is a question that leaders around the world are trying to understand.
For more information, Scott Detrow de NPR speaks with Angela Stent, professor emeritus at the University of Georgetown, principal researcher at Brookings Institution – a non -partisan political organization in Washington DC – and author of the book “Putin’s World: Russia against the West and with the rest.
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