Dmytro Kuleba on the Patriot missile deal, Trump, and how the war ends

When NATO leaders convened this week in Ankara, Turkey, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky again pressed them to cement their support for Kyiv. But this time, he could argue that Ukraine’s ability to produce and launch long-range drones has brought the war home to Russians, a strain that even President Vladimir Putin has recently acknowledged. Can battlefield momentum translate into movement in the peace talks? How much does Kyiv still need Washington? Dmytro Kuleba, Ukraine’s foreign minister from 2020 to 2024 and a senior fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center, joined FP’s Ravi Agrawal to assess where the war goes from here. Watch the interview at ForeignPolicy.com: https://foreignpolicy.com/live/dmytro... Read FP’s new print magazine here: https://foreignpolicy.com/projects/th... 0:00 Intro 2:14 Patriot missiles 4:17 The NATO summit 5:17 Trump and Ukraine 8:20 Ukraine’s strategy with Trump 11:19 The mood in Kyiv 13:41 The war in Iran 16:16 Is Ukraine winning? 19:54 Drone warfare 23:35 The EU response 26:10 Realism or optimism? 27:23 Ukraine’s manpower problem 28:55 Peace negotiations 32:20 Putin’s strategy 33:45 How the war ends On the go? Listen to FP Live as a podcast at https://link.chtbl.com/foreignpolicyl... or wherever you get your podcasts. FP Live is Foreign Policy's forum for live journalism that brings leading foreign-policy experts and thinkers together to analyze the world's biggest events. Visit http://foreignpolicy.com/live for the full conversation and more live journalism from Foreign Policy. Subscribe to Foreign Policy's Youtube Channel:    / @foreign-policy   Visit http://foreignpolicy.com/ to read the latest global news and analysis from FP. Follow Foreign Policy: X -   / foreignpolicy   Instagram -   / foreignpolicymag   Facebook -   / foreign.policy.magazine   LinkedIn -   / foreign-policy-magazine   TikTok -   / foreignpolicymagazine