comment from dmitry medvedev, the former russian president, who is now deputy head of the russian security council, on social media, wrote that after what had happened, he hopes that america will stop military assistance to ukraine. of course, that's what the russians would love to happen. it's been an incredible two weeks or so, which has turned everything on its head. it began with the putin—trump telephone call on february 12th, the start of us—russian talks, with no concessions coming from moscow. we had the munich security conference and that open schism between america and europe, and now the breakdown in relations between the united states and ukraine. and throughout all of this, there has been no sign that moscow is ready to make any concessions, ready for compromise, ready to give back any of the territories it has seized over the last three years. and after what we saw in the white house, that will not have changed. quite the opposite, i think. delegations are meeting in cairo to begin working on the second phase of the gaza ceasefire. egyptian security sources say israeli negotiators ar

but we have comments from the former russian president who is now the deputy head of the russian security councilsocial media that after what happened, he is calling on america to stop military assistance to ukraine. wouldn't the russians just love that? helena: what do you think this tells us about relations between the united states and russia right now? are we witnessing a shift? steven: a seismic shift, absolutely. look at what has happened in the last two weeks or so. it began with that phone call between vladimir putin and donald trump on the 12th of february. america bringing the kremlin leader back in from the cold. we have seen u.s.-russia talks beginning at a high level. we saw the extraordinary events of the munich security conference with that open schism between america and europe, and now after the dramatic events in the oval office, we see a breakdown in relations between the united states in ukraine. all of this is good news for vladimir putin. the russians are very confident now that they are going to build a new relationship with america, a stronger relationship with the trump a

what were the main topics of the discussion between president g and the, and the russian secretary of the security council sort of a showing. okay, thank you for having me here. actually from the read out of the chinese for mr. i think we have too many issues we should focus on. the 1st one is about the balance of relations as presidency emphasized to size truth mentioned, close communication at all levels. to fully implement a consent sense raced by that you had of states. and the 2nd one is about the agenda in boucher relations. as we know, the c, r marks, the eighteens the eighty's and the most array of the victories of the chinese people is full of resistance against the japanese of michigan. the soviet union is a great, substantial arctic well and the bald and 2 projects as well as well as eighty's and the most rail deformed the of the united nations. so in such a year of special historical significance, china, russian relations will definitely embrace a series of important attend. this should how, how would you assess the current level of partnership between these 2 economies? we just threw around a

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up as councilmembers to chart a path forward so that the security council can do its job and end the horror. generations of ukrainians and russians have died, husbands who will never return home to their wives. children will never find arms of their mothers. parents who will never again see their sons and daughters. the scale of the suffering is staggering. the war has also brought the world closer to a nuclear confrontation . once again raising the specter of fire ash and total destruction. thus it is our responsibility as un security council members to help end the agony and pull ourselves back from the brink . continuing to engage in rhetorical rivalries on new york may make diplomats feel vindicated but it will not save souls on the battlefield . we must prove to ourselves that we can come together and agree on the most basic principles. let us show one another the brave vision of peace that once told us out of hell can prevail. our draft resolution is elegant in its simplicity. a symbolic simple first step towards peace. the three brief paragraphs echo the spirit of the un charter and must as the night in 1945 a for this war

security council. >> we head this to head into a question. >> on the evening, the russians are sent in, the soldiers are woken up and stripped of their cell phones. they don't see putin's announcement of the special military, does anybody think that was weird? >> okay, we need a question. >> i don't know how to interpret that. >> well, if we think about the preparations that putin, i know by this period inside out because i was asked to comment on this and i was watching these things carefully. the russians were preparing the ground as we knew for what they were calling special operations. they wanted to have a pretext. there were a number of other things happening around this time. given all of the imagination in ukrainian politics. in this kind of period a gentleman who's a ukrainian very close to putin and putin is the god-father, he was basically arrested by the ukrainians. putin is one person that never let his men go. one of the reasons aaron gers wits were taken into custody - there were all kinds of things happening and certainly affecting putin's columbus - calculus that he wants to go into

russians. all it said is, this is a bad war. it needs to end, and by the way, at the security council, which has not been widely reported, the first resolution on ukraine that has passed the security council in three years, passed this week because of the leadership of president trump and it's a resolution that says, bad war, needs to end, let's bring the two sides together. that's what the resolution is. again, what is the united nations for? isn't it not a forum to promote peace in the world? and shouldn't our president -- shouldn't we all be happy that we have a president who's trying to stop wars and prevent them instead of start them? and i just don't get it. i really don't, other than the fact it's donald j. trump. if this was a democrat that was doing this, people would be saying he's on his way to the nobel peace prize. this is absurd. you cannot end the war unless both sides come to the table starting with the russians and that is the point the president has made and we have to do whatever we can to try to bring them to the table to see if it's even possible. i'm not promising you it's possible. i'm not telling you it's 9

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