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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy and U.S. President Donald Trump's special envoy, General Keith Kellogg, meet in Kyiv, Ukraine, on February 20, 2025.
US-Ukraine relations crumble as war anniversary approaches
Ahead of the third anniversary on Monday of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky and Donald Trump’sUkraine envoy, Keith Kellogg,met in Kyiv on Thursday to discuss bringing the fighting to an end as Washington’s allegiances appear to be shifting toward Moscow. After the meeting, a scheduled joint press conference was canceled on the orders of the US envoy, a sign that the two had not seen eye to eye.
Kellogg’s Kyiv visit comes amid growing tensions between Trump and Zelensky — whom the US president called a dictator this week — raising grave concerns about continued US support for Ukraine. Washington also opposed naming Russia as the aggressor in a G-7 statement set to be released on the war’s third anniversary, further fracturing the group's once-united front against Russia.
The Trump administration is increasing pressure on Ukraine to accept a deal to give the US access to critical minerals in Ukraine as repayment for its past support. “They need to tone it down and take a hard look and sign that deal,” Mike Waltz, the White House national security advisor, said in an interview with Fox News this week. Ukraine has criticized the US for engaging Russia in talks about ending the war without having Ukrainian representatives at the table earlier this week, with Zelensky saying Trump is living in a “disinformation bubble.”
Meanwhile, Polish PM Donald Tuskproposed using frozen Russian assets to aid Ukraine, enhancing NATO air defense and border security, and adopting new EU fiscal rules for defense funding as the continent scrambles to shore up Ukraine’s — and its own — security in the absence of American support.
A Russian victory would end the global order, says Yuval Noah Harari
The Ukraine war remains the most important geopolitical conflict in the world, says bestselling author and historian Yuval Noah Harari.
In a wide-ranging conversation with Ian Bremmer filmed live at the 92nd Street Y in New York City, Harari says that if Russia wins in Ukraine, the global order as we’ve known it for decades is over. "The most fundamental rule was that you cannot just invade and conquer another country just because you're stronger. This is exactly what Putin is trying to do in Ukraine."
The conversation also touches on the potential ripple effects of Russia's actions, suggesting that a successful annexation could embolden other nations to follow suit, destabilizing global peace. Harari even entertains the notion that we might be in the early stages of a third World War, unrecognized in the current moment, much like the early years of World War II were not immediately identified as such. "If he gets away with it, we'll see more and more Putins all over the world” Harari says. "There is a scenario that we are already living in the midst of the third World War and we just don't know it."
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