Special Edition: 3-Year Invasion - How to End Russia-Ukraine War?
The NewsWorthy
Erica Mandy
4.7 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 22 February 2025
⏱️ 16 minutes
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Summary
Three years after Russia's all-out assault on Ukraine, America's role in the conflict seems to be shifting under President Trump.
Today, an expert on the region shares insights on Trump's latest moves, Russia's behavior, Ukraine's hopes for the future, and what a possible end to this war could look like.
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| 0:00.0 | Today is Saturday, February 22nd. This Monday will mark three years since Russia's all-out assault |
| 0:05.7 | on Ukraine. And now America's role seems to be changing as President Trump spars with Ukraine's |
| 0:10.8 | leader and opens more dialogue with Russia. Today, an expert on the region will give her take |
| 0:15.3 | on President Trump's latest actions. Christina Hook is an assistant professor of conflict management |
| 0:19.8 | at Kennesaw State University and a specialist in Ukraine and Russia. |
| 0:23.9 | She's currently working on a book about this conflict and its history over the last decade. |
| 0:28.0 | In the past, she's also served as a U.S. Department of State Policy Advisor. |
| 0:31.5 | And today, she'll share insights on not only Trump's moves, but also Russia's behavior, Ukraine's hopes for the future, and what a |
| 0:38.1 | possible end to this war could look like. |
| 0:42.9 | Welcome, welcome to the Newsworthy special edition Saturday, when we sit down with a different |
| 0:47.0 | expert or celebrity every Saturday to talk about something in the news. |
| 0:50.4 | Don't forget to tune in every Monday through Friday for our regular episodes where we provide all the day's news in 10 minutes. I'm Erica Mandy. It's now time for today's special edition Saturday. |
| 1:02.6 | Christina Hook, thank you so much for joining us here on The Newsworthy. It's my pleasure. A lot has happened with the Russia-Ukraine war this week, including the Trump administration |
| 1:10.9 | negotiating directly with Russia without Ukraine. So what's your overview on why this approach is |
| 1:18.2 | happening and its potential impacts? We do want to focus on the specifics of the now, but we also |
| 1:23.9 | have to take a step back and say, where are we and where have we been? So this is an 11-year |
| 1:29.0 | war at this point, and I began conducting research on this war in 2015, one year into it. |
| 1:34.6 | Talk us through why you're saying that. So this war began when Russia unilaterally invaded |
| 1:40.1 | Crimea, which is a southern peninsula in Ukraine. At the same time, they also began to spark |
| 1:46.2 | warfare in two of the eastern provinces of Ukraine. This is a big area. It's actually bigger than |
| 1:51.9 | Denmark or the Netherlands. The war escalated in 2022, and by escalated, it meant invasion on |
| 1:58.7 | almost every side of Ukraine from both the country of Belarus |
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