For weeks, there was little movement on the front, but just before winter, Putin is now intensifying his mechanized attacks in the Donbas region, deploying numerous tanks. The Ukrainian army is fighting back with drones, inflicting heavy losses on the Russian army.

In the discussion surrounding the potential delivery of American Tomahawk cruise missiles to Ukraine, attention is turning to Washington. US President Trump plans to meet with Zelenskyy there. Just one day prior, Trump spoke with the Russian president again and agreed to another meeting in Hungary.

Christian Hoch discusses the reasons behind Russia's new tactics and the impact of the announced meeting with Putin on Ukraine's efforts to acquire US cruise missiles with military economist Marcus M. Keupp. Also joining them are US correspondent David Sauer in Washington and ZDF reporter Anne Brühl in Kyiv.

Here you can also find our Ukraine update as a weekly podcast, "Military & Power - The Analysis": https://kurz.zdf.de/aMjB/

00:00 Intro
01:25 Military economist Keupp on Russia's new tactics
15:48 How the phone call between Trump and Putin went, ZDF correspondent reports
18:36 New fears in Ukraine, ZDF reporter on the situation on the ground
26:12 Delivery of Tomahawks unlikely, according to Keupp
39:00 The economic situation in Russia
52:22 Podcast recommendation: Military & Power - The Analysis

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