Former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine William Taylor on Trump's embrace of Russia

NPR's Steve Inskeep asks former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine William Taylor about President Trump's embrace of Russia as envoy Steve Witkoff visits Moscow after meeting Ukraine's Volodymyr Zelenskyy. Transcript STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: And now let's bring Ambassador William Taylor back to the conversation. He has served as U.S. ambassador to Ukraine during the George W. Bush and Obama administrations - has been involved in some historic events. Ambassador, welcome back.WILLIAM TAYLOR: Thank you, Steve. Good to be here.INSKEEP: So what do you make of this Russian announcement? Is this something you would take seriously?TAYLOR: If the Russians are serious, Steve, then we should take it seriously. It's not clear they are. So far, every proposal for a ceasefire has been met with the same Russian response - no. And this may be different. However, as Joanna just pointed out, these three-way talks at the technical level were going on six months ago. And there were some progress at the technical level on, for example, how to monitor a ceasefire.And Ukrainians and Russians and Americans got together, and the technical experts were able to come up with some good ideas about how to monitor a ceasef...