On today’s Strategy Series program, sponsored by General Atomic Aeronautical Systems, Sam Bendett of the Center for Naval Analyses and Dr. Eugene Rumer, the director of the Russia and Eurasia program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, join Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian to discuss Russia’s war on Ukraine; what to expect from US-Ukraine-Russia talks in Abu Dhabi; what Democratic majorities in the House and Senate mean for Washington’s approach to Ukraine in the final two years of the Trump administration; the implications of the administration’s efforts to negotiate a “European security architecture” with Vladimir Putin; the prospect that Xi Jingping will be meet with Putin and President Trump at the APEC Summit in Shenzhen; and Ukraine’s efforts to better defend itself from Russian missile and drone attack as it accelerates production of the Freyja air defense weapon; and how Ukraine’s unprecedented Operation Vivaldi that used unmanned air systems to ferry unmanned ground vehicles to surprise Russian positions and claw back territory.
