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Why Putin Still Fights https://www.foreignaffairs.com/ukraine/why-putin-still-fights The Kremlin Will End Its War in Ukraine Only When It Knows That Victory Is Impossible Lawrence D. Freedman June 18, 2025 LAWRENCE D. FREEDMAN is Emeritus Professor of War Studies at King’s College London. He is the author of Command: The Politics of Military Operations From Korea to Ukraine and a co-author of the Substack Comment Is Freed. Nearly five months since U.S. President Donald Trump entered the White House promising to quickly end the war in Ukraine, it is being fought as intensely as before. Russia has not rejected the idea of negotiations, but despite Trump ruling out NATO membership or U.S. security guarantees for Ukraine, Russian President Vladimir Putin has yet to offer any serious concession to put a deal within reach. At first glance, it is unclear why this is so. After all, the war is now well into its fourth year, and although Russian forces have recently made advances and regularly a...