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Zelenskyy Touts Positive US Talks as Trump Puts Pressure on Kyiv

Volodymyr Zelenskyy sought to draw a line under the escalating feud with the US after meeting with Donald Trump’s envoys in Oslo, while the US president kept up pressure on Kyiv.

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