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Donald Trump has put the onus on Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, to reach a ceasefire with Russia after the US leader held direct talks with his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, in Alaska on Friday.
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Trump said the direct talks with Putin on Friday did not yield an agreement to pause the war in Ukraine, though he claimed “great progress” during the nearly three-hour-long summit
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Putin, speaking through an interpreter, suggested the two leaders had hammered out “an understanding
As a side note, Chinese state-controlled propaganda outlet South China Morning Post reports on the Trump-Putin summit that “Ukraine-Russia land swap, security guarantees ‘largely agreed’”, citing Trump saying that “many points” were negotiated “on behalf of Ukraine and on behalf of the whole Nato situation” in a “very warm meeting.”
At the same time, according to the South China Morning Post, Trump “warned that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky ‘has to’ accept what was agreed” and that “the European Union have [sic] to get involved a little bit next”.
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Beijing’s propaganda machine eyeing Taiwan and others is in full force it seems.