Two American presidents are trying to shape the future of the war in Ukraine at the same time. This episode was produced by Hady Mawajdeh and Haleema Shah, edited by Jolie Myers, fact-checked by Laura Bullard, engineered by Andrea Kristinsdottir and Patrick Boyd, and hosted by Sean Rameswaram. Transcript at vox.com/today-explained-podcast Support Today, Explained by becoming a Vox Member today: http://www.vox.com/members Photo by MIKHAIL KLIMENTYEV/SPUTNIK/AFP via Getty Images. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
This is TODAY Explained.
I'm Sean Ramasrom.
There's been a lot of news out of Ukraine in the past few weeks.
Ukraine used a US Missile system to strike deep into Russian territory for the first time on Tuesday.
People in Dnipro saw the extraordinary scene on their skyline of that multi warhead Russian missile experiment.
Nuclear saber rattling from the Kremlin this morning with Vladimir Putin and I don't.
Want to make it about us, but I couldn't help but wonder how much of it had to do with our recent election here in the United States.
So I asked Josh Keating at Vox.
I think it has a lot do with the election.
President Trump has come and said he wants to push for negotiations to end the war and I think what we see from both sides is an attempt to press their advantage before they're pushed by the new US Administration into some kind of talks.
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