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‘Ukraine’s adjusting to the idea that it has to cede some territory to Russia’

A top Nato general, now retired, also notes that Moscow and Beijing have become closer since the Ukraine conflict began.

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Mr Volodymyr Zelensky laying flowers to the Memory Wall of the Fallen Defenders of Ukraine on the Day of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Kyiv, Ukraine, on Dec 6.

Mr Volodymyr Zelensky laying flowers to the Memory Wall of the Fallen Defenders of Ukraine on the Day of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Kyiv, Ukraine, on Dec 6.

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With US President-elect Donald Trump having usurped the foreign policy initiative from incumbent Joe Biden and privileging French President Emmanuel Macron with the diplomatic coup of

arranging a meeting

between himself and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, the pieces on the European chessboard are set to move swiftly. 

It is interesting, under these circumstances, to hear the Nato and European perspective on the Ukraine peace deal that Trump has promised within a day of taking office, and what more is likely to come thereafter.

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