Were we one step closer to ending Russia’s illegal war on Ukraine? To examine these questions and explore what the future may hold, ASPI resident senior fellow David Wroe spoke to renowned Russia expert Mark Galeotti on this week’s episode of ASPI’s Stop the World podcast. Galeotti argued that, despite demands from Ukraine and European powers, there would be no ceasefire before negotiations. Both Russia and Ukraine would need to reset, and he predicted it would take Russia eight years to reconstitute its forces. Galeotti said he saw ‘no evidence that Putin has any aspirations to a war with the largest and most powerful military alliance in the world’.