This is CBSI in the world. I'm John Batchel with Bill Rajo, Senior Fellow Foundation for Defensive Democracies, my co-host and colleague, as we welcome John Hardy of the Foundation for the Defense of Democracy, who watches the Ukraine conflict for FD and for us.

Mr. Hardy, a good day to you.

I read the headlines out of London promising before the Easter weekend.

Talks on Ukraine continuing in London, Macron reveals timeline for next meeting.

Or ceasefire countdown.

Will London talks finally stop the Russia-Ukraine war?

Or Russia-Ukraine talks reach pivotal moment for Trump?

What we know is the initial talks led to more talks.

Fine.

We also had the surprising news in these last days of a ceasefire announced for Easter by Vladimir Putin, with allegations flying from both sides that neither watched or kept the ceasefire.

And now we turn to where we are in general, in your understanding,

and your excellent piece in the New York Post most recently,

where we are in general about what is being talked about.

What are the issues that are presenting these matters for Mr. Whitkoff for the U.S.

and Sergei Lavrov and his lieutenants in the foreign ministry for Russia.

Good evening to you, John.

Hey, John. Hey, Bill. Great to be back on the show.

What are the issues that they're debating, John? We have the maximum demands from Moscow.

Is there any change in the weather?

Sure. So just to paint the picture for your audience, we come in here pushing up on President Trump's first hundred days in office. This is when

Rubio and Steve Whitkoff and General Kellogg, Trump's envoys to Russia and Ukraine, respectively,

traveled to Paris on Thursday to meet with Ukrainian and French and British and German officials,

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