War Diaries, Volume 3: The Russia-Ukraine War, 2025 (War Diaries. The Russia-Ukraine War) Paperback – May 16, 2026

2025 was the fourth year of the Russia-Ukraine war. It was also the first year of the second presidential term of Donald J. Trump. His arrival in the Oval Office immediately opened up lines of communication between Moscow and Washington that had been shut down for most of the Biden presidency. Within a very few weeks, Trump established a negotiating process with the parties to the conflict that dominated day to day news reporting for the entire year 2025 and moved to the background coverage of the actual fighting on the field of battle in Ukraine. In this Volume 3 we follow the twists and turns in the outlook for resolution of the conflict. A high point in expectations was reached during and immediately after the summit meeting of the two presidents in Anchorage, Alaska on 15 August 2025. However, as the autumn turned to winter the resolution of the war appeared once again to await a decisive victory by Russia on the field of battle. The constant twists and turns were documented here in essays of commentary and in brief summaries of the nearly daily interviews (with links shown) which the author gave to leading podcast platforms Read more