Heavy Casualties May Spur Ukraine War Negotiations

As the war in Ukraine nears its third anniversary, U.S. President Donald Trump called Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday, in what Trump characterized as the start of negotiations to bring the conflict to an end.

UVA Today sat down prior to Wednesday's announcement with William Antholis, director of the University of Virginia’s Miller Center of Public Affairs and chair of an every-other-week, off-the-record “Ukraine War Room” video conference, to see if there’s a chance of ending the war.