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Irwin Redlener

Irwin Redlener, a physician, is senior advisor to the Institute for Global Policy at Columbia University and president and co-founder of the Ukraine Children’s Action Project. He was founding director of Columbia’s National Center for Disaster Preparedness. He publishes at IrwinRedlener.org.

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'Land for security' in Ukraine negotiations must be rejected

by Irwin Redlener
Even as the world is understandably distracted by war in the Middle East, talks to end the Ukraine-Russia war have just resumed in the United States, albeit without Russian representatives. Since Ukraine has repeatedly signaled its resistance to even consider ceding territory, Putin’s negotiators have so far refused to join discussions. That said, my concern is that, with or without Russian participation, U.S. President Donald Trump and his highly inexperienced negotiators will continue to pre