Yaroslav Trofimov

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215 appearances 7 recordings 3 series first heard Dec 2024 last heard 1 Jul

Yaroslav Trofimov’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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WSJ What’s News · Why Statues Taken Down in 2020 Are Coming Back · 4 Jun 2026 podcast

These are people who have very little love for the Ukrainian government.

However, they're speaking out now just because it's clear that the momentum of the war has changed.

So you hear it from people like Oleg Tsarev, who used to be a parliament member in Ukraine before fleeing to Russia.

And then he was President Putin's top candidate to lead a puppet regime that Russia planned to install in Ukraine.

Or you have people like Vasily Kashin, who is a top analyst and prominent think tanker in Russia.

So he wrote a piece in Russia's foremost foreign policy journal, also arguing that Russia really has no path to victory in Ukraine.

These are people who have very little love for the Ukrainian government.

However, they're speaking out now just because it's clear that the momentum of the war has changed.

Ukraine has been able to stop Russian advances by and large.

And at the same time, Ukraine's drones and missiles have been able to strike throughout Russia.

We saw the strike on the port of St.

Petersburg this week.

Justice, Russia's main economic conference with lots of foreign guests, was about to start.

A lot of people that I talk to, watching Russia very closely, are very skeptical that President Putin will actually listen.

Because for this regime, war is really a moris vivendi.

As a former Ukrainian foreign minister, Pavlo Klimkin told me, it's like riding a bicycle, you know, if you stop, you fall.

Well, not really, because they're all couching this in very patriotic language.

And they're all saying, you know, we supported the war.

You know, it's just, you know, we understand that now it's going to be difficult.

So, you know, those are not liberals.

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