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president Trump once said that he would
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end the war in Ukraine in one day that
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didn't quite pan out but the US
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president wants to stamp his name all
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over any peace deal that would bring an
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end to three years of war his call with
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Vladimir Putin this week got him some
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concessions the Russian leader has
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agreed to stop attacks on Ukraine's
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energy infrastructure for 30 days
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according to Russian State media the
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call lasted around 2 hours and they
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apparently talked about International
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Security peace in the Middle East and
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even ice hockey Trump has posted on his
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truth social afterwards to say that the
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call was a very good and productive one
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by all accounts the tone of the call was
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a lot warmer than when Trump kicked
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Ukrainian president ziny out of the
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White House in February and this direct
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re-engagement with the Russian president
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is a major diplomatic U-turn for the US
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under the Biden Administration Putin was
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a pariah throughout the west and Putin
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has put forward a number of major
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caveats to the US ceasefire deal signed
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off by zalinsky earlier in March
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insisting that Ukraine must be cut off
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from intelligence flows and arms
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supplies zinsky has said that Putin's
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ceasefire is purposefully designed to
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weaken Ukraine and to cut it off from
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its allies he says they are not ready to
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end this war and we can see that they
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are not even ready for the first step
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which is a ceasefire the reaction to the
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call around the world has been mixed
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Downing Street put out a statement
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welcoming the progress that President
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Trump has made towards the ceasefire but
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insisting that any negotiations must
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lead to a just and Lasting peace but the
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former UK prime minister Boris Johnson
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has said that Trump has been played by
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Putin he wrote on Act that Putin isn't
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negotiating he's laughing at us and just
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hours after Putin appeared to have given
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the orders to Halt attacks on Ukraine's
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energy infrastructure there were reports
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of drone and missile strikes on
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Ukrainian cities with blackout reported
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in the town of Sloans in the Donk region
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Trump didn't exactly get many
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compromises out of Putin and it's not
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clear whether or not in private he's
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happy about this if this is the kind of
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peace deal that the US ultimately puts
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in front of Ukraine it may not be an
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acceptable one and at this stage there
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is very little evidence that Putin is
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approaching peace talks in good faith if
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