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

We are ready to move quickly toward a just agreement to end the war.

The only question is for the Russians. What do they want?

Ukraine is about to enter its fifth year of full-scale war with Russia.

Ukrainian historian Serhi Ploffi joins me on his new book

David and Goliath.

And why he says staving off the Russian invasion is a defining test of all of our democracies.

Then...

What happens when you get a very powerful person who's in vengeance first?

A classic Western for a divided age, a new stage adaptation of High Noon, revisits

fierce, silence, and moral courage in polarized times.

Actors Billy Crudder and Denise Goff explained why the story feels so urgent right now. Also ahead.

The pretrial process is so punishing that people will do extreme things just to end it.

A warning about America's justice system, former public defender Emily Galvin Almanza,

tells Michel Martin why due process failures in lower courts have been normalized

for years. Welcome to the program, everyone. I'm Christiana Manpur in London. In a few days, Ukraine will mark a violent, aggressive anniversary four years since Russia's full-scale invasion. Negotiators from Kiev and Moscow met in Geneva this week for another

round of U.S. brokered talks, even as expectations remain low. The toughest issues from territorial

concessions to long-term security guarantees remain unresolved. The war has already reshaped

Europe's security order, strained Western

unity and tested the limits of diplomacy. It's a conflict that historians Serhi Plochie explores

in his new book, David and Goliath, casting the war as a stark struggle between a smaller democracy

and a far larger would-be empire.

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