LONDON -- The presidents of Ukraine and Russia "have not been exactly best friends," U.S. President Donald Trump said earlier this week, as he pushed for an in-person meeting that he says he hopes will lay the groundwork for an end to Moscow's three-and-a-half-year-old invasion of Ukraine. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Russian President Vladimir Putin last met in 2019, for ill-fated negotiations on ending the simmering conflict sparked by Russia's seizure of Crimea and fomentation of a separatist rebellion in eastern Ukraine in 2014. The 2019 meeting, which occurred shortly after Zelenskyy won power on a populist wave, ended with commitments to implement "all necessary ceasefire support measures" before the end of that year and to release all prisoners of war. Trump's seeming

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