Hello everyone and welcome to Ammanpur. Here's what's coming up.

Our people are dying too. That is why we are doing everything to stop this war and to guarantee security.

As delegates head to Geneva for the next round of Ukraine peace talks, Christian discusses what's at stake in Munich,

with President Zelensky and leaders from NATO, Europe, and the United States.

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Margaret Haney about how the drug affects the brain. Welcome to the program, everyone.

I'm Biana Gola Drega in New York, sitting in for Christian Amunpur.

It's been almost four years since Russia's brutal, full-scale invasion of Ukraine began.

And now Ukrainian negotiators are headed to Geneva to meet with Russia and the United States for the next round of talks,

hoping to hammer out a ceasefire agreement.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio says President Trump wants a solution that ends the bloodshed once and for all.

And President Trump says Kiev has to move because Russia wants to make a deal.

Speaking at the Munich Security Conference, President Zelensky told delegates that Ukraine

will do everything to make these negotiations successful.

The Americans often return to the topic of concessions, and too often those concessions

are discussed in the context only of Ukraine, not Russia.

This is very important.

And Ukraine keeps returning to one simple point. Peace can only be built on clear,

clear security guarantees. Where there is no clear security system, war always returns.

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