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Donald Trump proclaimed “great progress” toward ending the Ukraine war after announcing plans to meet soon with Russian President Vladimir Putin .

But is Putin, to quote the US president in a previous, and rare, moment of lucidity on Russian relations, merely “tapping (him) along” again?

Trump’s boiling frustration with Putin, who has tarnished the president’s hopes of becoming a peacemaker worthy of the Nobel Prize, evaporated after his envoy Steve Witkoff emerged from a three-hour meeting Wednesday with the Kremlin strongman.

In this pool photograph distributed by the Russian state agency Sputnik, Russia's President Vladimir Putin greets US Specia

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