‘The Trump-Putin relationship is the biggest mystery in international politics’: foreign correspondent Luke Harding answered your questions

The Guardian’s Luke Harding discussed Trump, Putin and the state of the war in Ukraine, his expulsion from Russia, his new book Betrayal, and his career as a foreign correspondent Thanks for your brilliant questions and apologies that I didn’t manage to answer many of them. I’ve been typing as fast as I can! Do pick up a copy of Betrayal (from the Guardian Bookshop) and thanks for supporting our journalism. It’s wonderful to have intelligent and engaged readers, who are curious about the world! I’m at various book festivals this autumn and beyond, where we can continue the conversation. SaraLus asks: I write as a sponsor of a Ukrainian mother and daughter from Kyiv and consequently I read your articles with some fervour … when do you think the war will end? There are rumours that the banking system will collapse by November and that consequently Putin will be ousted and the war will end if not the Russian military threat and the occupation of Crimea. OldRoots asks: How do you think the war might end? It seems unlikely that Moscow would be able to occupy and subjugate all of Ukraine but it’s also hard to see Kyiv being able to retake the territory it has lost. If you l