rule of law at home, they don t respect democratic or generalized international order diplomatic norms. we had a great example of the russians a few days ago said they were going to scale back military activity around kyiv, to, quote, increase mutual trust. the russians don t care about trust, they want to annihilate ukraine. now we learn they re actually mining that area so as they retreat they re going to cause the most loss of life possible. so this is a good example of how you can t trust what the russians say. most of the time their negotiations are in bad faith. i want you to help us understand something, ruth, and that is that you have these growing atrocities that putin is conducting in ukraine. he still continues to consolidate support from the russian public. ross douhot rights putin is rattling a nation that feels itself to be as he portrays it, unjustly surrounded and
meeting between ukrainian president zelenskyy and russian president putin. but if putin s track record is any indication, he is not a reliable negotiator, raising the question, can an agreement with putin truly ever be reached? to help me answer this question, history professor ruth ben ghiat joins me. we ve seen russia agree to things and then do the opposite. is there any chance for putin and zelenskyy to come to a true agreement? yeah. so right now the turkish foreign minister is shepherding these talks, says there s been progress, which is mostly around the concession of ukraine, that it will be permanently neutral, so it won t seek to be in nato. but the problem is that it s very difficult to negotiate with somebody like putin. just as they don t respect the rule of law at home, they don t respect democratic or generalized international order