Ian Bremmer

They actively negotiated on the prospects of another round of prisoner exchanges, soldiers fighting that are seriously wounded.

This has happened before, but it's meaningful that it happened just now.

And the Russians have also provided in Russian, but I took a quick look at it,

some documents around what would be required for a ceasefire.

It appears that there are two different options.

One is that the Ukrainians would have to cede all the territory that the Russians have annexed, which includes territory that Russia right now does not actually occupy, a non-starter.

The second would be present lines of conflict.

Ukraine doesn't cede more territory, but they are not allowed to have any further intelligence or weapons systems of any sort from the West.

And no weapons, no soldiers on the ground from the West going forward, also a non-starter.

So, I mean, interestingly, there's still no common ground.

But Helen, I would tell you that today,

Russia and Ukraine on the diplomatic front are a small step closer than they were before the Ukrainian attacks.

I would tell you on the military front, they are a slightly larger step towards significant escalation than they were a couple of days ago.

And that's the tension here.

That's the tension.

Anduril, yeah.

Yeah, it's the countries that are using the drones effectively that are taking it most seriously.

So it's Israel, it's Ukraine, it's India, it's the Gulf states, it's countries that have seen these things directly in operation and it's changing their lives.

The United States is thankfully not in or near a war zone.

Canada, Mexico, two big bodies of water.