In today’s podcast episode, we are pleased as well as honoured to be joined by Ambassador Steven Pifer who is a fellow at the Robert Bosch Academy in Berlin and a non-resident senior fellow with the Brookings Institution. We talked about the response of NATO, the EU and the U.S. towards Ukraine and Russia in the wake of the intensifying conflict, possible Kremlin’s intentions behind the maneuvers and the possibilities and limits of the negotiation frameworks, i.e. the Normandy Group and the Minsk Contact Group, in their pursuit to secure the implementation of the ceasefire.