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By EMMA BURROWS , John Leicester and ILLIA NOVIKOV The meeting in the Oval Office between U.S. President Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy was a diplomatic car crash. “Your country is in big trouble. You’re not winning,” Trump said, dressing down Zelenskyy in front of the world’s media. “You don't have the cards.” The blowup in February 2025 , three years into the war, was more than just a heated public exchange: The Ukrainian delegation was asked to leave the White House, and Washington briefly suspended intelligence sharing with Kyiv. In the ensuing months, as Russia made slow but steady gains on the battlefield, Trump warmly welcomed Russian President Vladimir Putin in Alaska and seemed ready to push Ukraine into an unfavorable peace deal , including forcing it to give up territory . In an embarrassment to Putin, Ukrainian drone strikes sent thick plumes of smoke billowing over St.
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In the first six months of the year, 1,396 civilians were killed in Ukraine, according to the U.N. On Monday, a strike that Ukraine said hit an oil refinery in Russia killed 13 people, according to local officials.
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