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

but where is the action? As Russia drags its feet over possible peace talks, I asked Wall Street

Journal correspondent Yaroslav Trifimov what options are left for Ukraine and its allies.

Then a decades-old alliance that's showing some signs of strain.

South Korea's president sits down with Donald Trump to talk China, strategy, North Korea, defense,

and U.S. tariffs.

I speak to Brookings Institution's senior fellow Andrew Yeo.

Plus, an Israeli strike on a Gaza hospital kills at least 20 people,

including journalists. CNN Jerusalem bureau chief, Orrin Lieberman, joins me for the latest.

And the ruthless quest for AI dominance. I'll speak with the journalist who's taking a look

at OpenAI's meteoric rise to the top and how it plans to stay there.

Welcome to the program, everyone. I'm Biona Goldriga, New York, sitting in for Christiana Amun-Poor.

We begin in Ukraine, where Keeves' future is once again hanging in the balance.

Flanked by Western allies, Ukrainian President of L Lordemir Zelensky marked his country's

Independence Day this weekend with a promise to his people that they would one day celebrate

peace under Ukrainian flag and on Ukrainian land. That future, though, appears less certain than ever,

with no signs that any workable deal is in the cards and with Russia backing further away from potential talks.

As diplomacy stalls, the fighting grinds on, with soldiers and civilians caught in the crossfire.

So is there any hope that Russia will come to the negotiating table and what parameters might a deal include?

Yaroslav is Chief Foreign Affairs correspondent for the Wall Street Journal and author of Our Enemies Will Viannish Yaroslav.

It is good to see you.

So we had the Russian foreign minister, Sergei Lavrov, over the weekend, say that there is no meeting planned when asked

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