1 Killed in Attack on Crimea as Putin and Zelenskyy Hold Separate Trump Calls
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A man is dead in Crimea and both Putin and Zelenskyy are still taking separate calls from Washington instead of sitting across a table from each other. That tells you where this war actually stands after five years. Everybody wants Trump on the phone.
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One person was killed in a Ukrainian attack on Russian-occupied Crimea, Moscow-installed officials said in the early hours of Sunday, as Russian and Ukrainian leaders held separate calls with U.S. President Donald Trump on ending the war, now in its fifth year.Two others
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A man is dead in Crimea and both Putin and Zelenskyy are still taking separate calls from Washington instead of sitting across a table from each other. That tells you where this war actually stands after five years. Everybody wants Trump on the phone. Nobody wants to be in the same room.
There's something almost absurd about it. Two countries locked in the bloodiest European conflict since World War II, and the closest thing to diplomacy is each side pitching its case to a mediator who isn't even in the region. That's not a peace process, that's shuttle diplomacy for men who don't trust each other enough to speak directly.
We'd like to think separate calls are a step toward something real. Maybe they are. But strikes keep landing, people keep dying in occupied territory nobody in Washington controls, and both leaders keep treating Trump like a translator instead of a closer. If this war ends, it ends when Moscow and Kyiv talk to each other, not around each other through a third party thousands of miles away.
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