President Donald Trump spoke with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Wednesday. Putin rejected a full ceasefire in Ukraine and put forward his own conditions to end the conflict. For some insight into how the Kremlin views this moment, The World’s Marco Werman spoke with Nina Khrushcheva, a professor of international affairs at the New School in New York and the great granddaughter of Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev.
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