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UK Rejects Witkoff’s Characterization of Putin as ‘Humanitarian’

The UK pushed back against the description of Vladimir Putin as a “humanitarian” given by US President Donald Trump’s Ukraine war envoy, saying it rejected that characterization of the Russian leader.

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