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

This is Putin's negotiating position. It's basically blackmail and extortion.

A diplomatic flurry to end the war in Ukraine, but are we any closer to the peace President

Trump promised? I asked New York Times columnist Masha Gessen and historian Peter Frankopan what's next for Ukraine.

Then...

It's the sound of the people today.

Grammy award-winning artist Jean Batiste tells me about his genre-defying new album Big Money

and how he's reclaiming American music.

Plus,

Nobody should be killed or like massacred for getting electricity or build a home.

As Israel approves plans to effectively split the West Bank into two,

Christian's conversation with the filmmakers behind award-winning documentary No Other Land,

which follows the long and deadly history of settler violence there. Welcome to the program, everyone. I'm Biana Gola-Ladriga, New York, sitting in for Christian Amunpur.

One week, two landmark diplomatic meetings and seemingly no concrete progress made towards ending the war in Ukraine.

President Trump may be touting his peacemaking credentials, but it's Europe, which is now left

hashing out plans to keep Ukraine's land and skies safe. Russia, meantime, is playing coy about whether

it will even turn up for the next round of talks, outlook to be between Zelensky

and Putin directly. As a diplomacy grinds on, so does the fighting, with soldiers on the front line

and civilians both paying the price. So what cards do Kiev and its allies have left to play?

And can the Kremlin's words even be trusted? Journalist Masha Gessen is a vocal critic of both the Kremlin and Trump administration.

And Peter Frankapan is an Oxford University historian specializing in Russia and the Balkans.

Welcome both of you.

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