US Special Envoy Steve Witkoff heads to Russia next week for talks with Putin ahead of Trump’s new ceasefire deadline. Meanwhile Ukraine’s government has been embroiled in another corruption scandal and the EU has withheld vital funds due to Ukraine’s failure to meet governance reform benchmarks. 

• GUEST: Anne Applebaum, staff writer at The Atlantic, historian and author of Autocracy inc; the dictators who want to run the world
• PRODUCER: Catherine Zengerer