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Trump signals Russia blocking path to peace as CIA rejects Putin's drone attack claim - PBS NewsHour
Dec 31, 2025
The CIA has assessed that Ukraine was not targeting a residence of Russian President Vladimir Putin in a recent drone attack, a claim that Putin told President Trump, and that Trump seemed to accept. Trump now suggests that he agrees with European leaders that it’s Russia blocking the path to a peace agreement. Nick Schifrin discussed more with Angela Stent.
The CIA has assessed that Ukraine was not targeting a residence of Russian President Vladimir Putin in a recent drone attack, a claim that Putin told President Trump, and that Trump seemed to accept. Trump now suggests that he agrees with European leaders that it’s Russia blocking the path to a peace agreement. Nick Schifrin discussed more with Angela Stent.
Transcript
I read Stent's book Putin's World: Russia Against the West and with the Rest when it came out in 2019, after hearing her on NPR's Weekend Edition Sunday, and would highly recommend it. Although PBS identifies Stent as a fellow at the American Enterprise Institute (a conservative think tank), it doesn't mention she was previously a fellow at the liberal Brookings Institution. Stent joined AEI this year after years at Brookings.