Trump's Views On Russia-Ukraine War Are Shifting
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🗓️ 10 July 2025
⏱️ 13 minutes
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This episode: political correspondent Ashley Lopez, national security correspondent Greg Myre, and senior national political correspondent Mara Liasson.
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| 0:55.4 | been all over the place, but I'm glad you had a good time. Hey there, it's the NPR Politics Podcast. |
| 1:00.6 | I'm Ashley Lopez. I cover politics. I'm Greg Myrie. I cover national security. And I'm |
| 1:06.1 | Mara Liason, senior national political correspondent. And today our focus is on the United States' role in the war in Ukraine. |
| 1:13.7 | Greg, so Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine started more than three years ago. |
| 1:18.5 | The U.S. has been supporting Ukraine with weapons since the very start of that. |
| 1:22.2 | Can you catch us up on where this war is now and how involved the U.S. is at this point? |
| 1:30.5 | Yeah, Ashley. Today is a really good typical example. Russia fired about 400 drones and 18 missiles into Ukraine, many of them at the |
| 1:37.5 | capital Kiev. Russian troops are hundreds of miles away from Kiev. There's no way they're going |
| 1:43.0 | to get to the city or take it. |
| 1:45.4 | So most of these missiles and drones are at civilian targets. It seems like it's really an |
| 1:50.9 | attempt to overwhelm Ukraine and sap the morale of civilians. And many of these civilians are |
| 1:56.7 | sleeping in their basements or in the subways during these attacks that last most of the night |
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