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Thank you. Welcome to the PDB Situation Report. Oh, is it that time of the week again? I'm Mike Baker. Your eyes and ears on the world stage. All right. Let's get briefed. We'll start things off with a major development in the war in Ukraine.

After high-level talks in Saudi Arabia, Kyiv has agreed to a 30-day ceasefire.

But you ask yourself, isn't there another player in this? And there is. What will Russia do?

And will they agree at all to the terms of a 30-day ceasefire? We'll break it all down with Fred Flights. He's a former National Security Council chief of staff and the vice

chair of the America First Policy Institute's Center for American Security. That's hard to fit

on one business card. Later in the show, we turn to Syria where a major outbreak of violence

is threatening to push the country deeper

into chaos. Reports of massacres are emerging as the fragile government struggles to maintain

control. We'll get analysis from David Dowd, senior fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies.

But first, today's situation report spotlight. Ukraine has agreed to a 30-day

ceasefire with Russia following high-level negotiations in Saudi Arabia. Now, the announcement came

after hours of discussions in Jeddah on Tuesday, where the U.S. also confirmed it would

immediately lift its pause on intelligence sharing with Kyiv and resume

military aid. Now, the talks mark a significant shift in ceasefire negotiations, which had stalled,

of course, after a tense exchange, I think we all saw that, between the Ukrainian and U.S.

presidents at the White House. Now, attention turns to Moscow, with American and

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