The long history of Russia's broken promises to Ukraine
Mar 21, 2025•11 min
Episode description
Representatives from Russia and Ukraine will be in meetings to try to hammer out details of a ceasefire on Monday. But peace is still a long way off.
For starters it's only a partial ceasefire—no strikes on energy infrastructure. It's only for 30 days.
And the Ukrainians and Russians aren't even meeting with each other. The U.S. will be a go-between.
One of the biggest things working against a new agreement, is what happened after Ukraine's last agreement with Russia. And the ones before that.
Ukraine says it won't trust a promise from Russia. It needs security guarantees. To understand why, you've got to go back to the birth of independent Ukraine.
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For starters it's only a partial ceasefire—no strikes on energy infrastructure. It's only for 30 days.
And the Ukrainians and Russians aren't even meeting with each other. The U.S. will be a go-between.
One of the biggest things working against a new agreement, is what happened after Ukraine's last agreement with Russia. And the ones before that.
Ukraine says it won't trust a promise from Russia. It needs security guarantees. To understand why, you've got to go back to the birth of independent Ukraine.
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