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Putin agrees to talks with Kyiv and Washington

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Russian President Vladimir Putin agrees to resume three-way talks with Ukraine and the United States at negotiator level by early November. Kyiv supports the US proposal, but a Chatham House analyst says a meeting between Putin, Donald Trump and Volodymyr Zelensky is uncertain, according to France 24.

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