This is CBSI on the world.

I'm John Batchel, the Trump administration and Russian Federation, led by Vladimir Putin and the Kremlin,

engaged in warfare in Ukraine, but at the same time diplomacy across the Eurasian World Island,

into Africa, into Latin America.

Certainly the BRICS is Russian diplomacy.

And what is to be done for the Trump administration and Russia.

We begin with Ukraine.

That conflict has been described by the designated Secretary of State Mr. Rubio as a stalemate.

The information I have most recently, Gregory, is that there may be North Korean troops

involved in combat in the Kursk salient. That's Russian territory. They may be used as individual

units, but they're not fighting collectively, is the story.

At the same time, the Kremlin is said to want to push Ukraine out of the cursed settlement

because it's anticipating a negotiation.

Mr. Trump has said, I don't want to inherit this war.

I want it to end. The reason there's

thought that it can happen is that Mr. Zelensky has been obedient in some fashion to Mr.

Trump's wish to end the war, even speculating about negotiations. There was one remark early on

from the Trump team, no name,

that Crimea is gone. All those conditions suggest there's politics at work, there's diplomacy

at hand, and that the fighting has reached a point where there's going to be no large-scale movement,

although the Kirst Sient is a question.

Russia, listening to Donald Trump coming into office, what is it here, Gregory?

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