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Is Trump on the brink of helping to bring an end to the war in Ukraine?

It is certainly something that we're rooting for,

and we will talk to our friend Bill Roggio about it now.

He's a senior fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies.

You know him from Long War Journal.

He gets deep into this stuff, deep into the weeds of conflicts abroad.

Bill, let's start with this.

Can you just give me, and we got a few minutes here to do this, what is the status of the

conflict right now?

It's still ongoing, right?

No ceasefire.

So you still have both sides shooting at each other.

Where do we find ourselves as we look over the battlefield in Ukraine?

What is the status quo?

Yeah, hello, Buck. And the status is that the war continues. The Russians are eating the Ukrainian cow one small bite at a time. The Russians are making small gains daily, but these gains add up in the Donbos region, which is

made up primarily of the Luhansk and Denezsk-Oblas in eastern Ukraine. The Russians control

nearly all of Luhansk and about 60 to 70 percent of the Donbass.

Remaining are two large cities of Sloviansk and Kremtoursk. And then there are several smaller cities.

The Russians are surrounding one city that used to be the key logistical hub for Ukrainian forces.

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