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Exclusive: Trump's push for a Ukraine energy truce runs into a Putin problem
Politics

Exclusive: Trump's push for a Ukraine energy truce runs into a Putin problem

by Tim Zadorozhnyy

U.S. President Donald Trump privately doubts that Russian President Vladimir Putin will agree to an energy ceasefire with Ukraine before winter, people familiar with the matter told the Kyiv Independent. The doubts come as Washington presses both Kyiv and Moscow to halt attacks on each other's energy infrastructure, one of the key issues in recent peace talks. Trump has publicly pushed Ukraine to stop striking Russian energy facilities, while Moscow has yet to signal that it is ready to accept

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