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'Putin only understands force'. Former U.S. special envoy for Ukraine negotiations Kurt Volker on how Trump could seek to end the war

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Meduza‘Putin only understands force’ Former U.S. special envoy for Ukraine negotiations Kurt Volker on how Trump could seek to end the war — MeduzaU.S. President-elect Donald Trump has repeatedly promised to end Russia’s war in Ukraine by inauguration day. But in the weeks since his election win, the situation on the battlefield has been evolving rapidly. After entering the lame-duck phase of his presidency, Joe Biden authorized Ukraine to use American missiles for longer-range strikes on the Kursk region, where Ukrainian forces are trying to cling to territorial gains made during their surprise incursion into Russia in August. In response, Vladimir Putin ordered a strike on Ukraine’s Dnipro with a new ballistic missile and lowered the threshold for Russia’s use of its nuclear weapons, while accusing the United States and its allies of escalation. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, meanwhile, has called on allies to continue pressuring Russia and supporting Ukraine — policies many fear Trump will abandon in his bid to broker a peace deal. For more insight into what Moscow and Kyiv can expect from the second Trump administration, The Beet editor Eilish Hart spoke to Kurt Volker, former U.S. ambassador to NATO and Trump’s former special representative for Ukraine negotiations.