Ex-US ambassador: Beginning of a Ukraine ceasefire

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00:00I'm assuming you've been following this conflict and the situation in Ukraine now, well, for the best part of a decade.

00:06And I want to start by asking you, where are we? Are we at the beginning of the end yet?

00:11I think we are at the beginning of a phase that will take us back to a ceasefire.

00:16We had a ceasefire nominally, not always respected by Russia, but nominally a ceasefire from 2014 until 2022.

00:27And then we have, of course, Russia's full-scale invasion in 2022.

00:32I think we are heading back now toward a ceasefire in place.

00:37I mean, we had, if I could add, yeah, just to add to that, I know there's a lot of talk about a peace deal or an agreement.

00:45I think that is far less likely.

00:48I think we can have a ceasefire where future attacks are refrained from and deterred.

00:56But an actual peace agreement I'm very skeptical about.