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Trump and Ukraine ceasefire talks: One last roll of the dice?
Meeting in London follows growing US impatience with failure to strike a deal.
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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is seen as guilty of “starting” the war because he refused to do what was expected of the weak: surrender to a more powerful Russia.
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US President Donald Trump has had enough. After promising to end the Ukraine war in “24 hours” only to extend the deadline to the first 100 days of his presidency, Mr Trump is now threatening that, if the parties to the conflict won’t stop fighting immediately, he will drop the entire matter, and find something else to do.
If either side continues to block a deal over the next few days, Mr Trump warned: “We’re just going to say, ‘You’re foolish, you’re fools, you’re horrible people’, and we’re going to just take a pass.”
