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Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky says the war with Russia is

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likely to end more quickly. Under the presidency of

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Donald Trump. The US president elect said often during

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his campaign that he would rapidly end the conflict in

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Ukraine without giving specifics. In a Ukrainian radio interview

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aired on Saturday. Zelensky also said Kyiv must do

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everything so that this war ends next year and through

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diplomatic means. He was commenting at a decisive moment

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following Trump's win and grinding battlefield games by Russia.

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He said US law prevented him from meeting Trump before

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his inauguration on January 20th with the policy of the

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team that will head the White House. Now he

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said the war will end sooner. However, Zelensky

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said Russian President Vladimir Putin was not interested in agreeing

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to a peace deal and argued it was convenient for

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Moscow to sit down to talk while continuing to fight

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. Moscow's ambassador to the Un in Geneva said on

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Thursday, Russia would be open to negotiations an end

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to the war if they were initiated by Trump.

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Though he added that these would have to acknowledge realities

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on the ground. Moscow uses this phrase to mean

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Ukraine would have to cede four regions that Russian forces

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have partly occupied and that Russia has claimed in their

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entirety. Zelensky has repeatedly said since Russia's full scale

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invasion in February 2022 that peace cannot be established until

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all Russian forces are expelled and all territory captured by

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Moscow is returned. However, a return to Ukraine's

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internationally recognized borders was not mentioned in the victory plan

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that he presented last month on the battlefields of eastern

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Ukraine. Russia is now advancing at the fastest rate

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since the war's earliest days. In 2022 Zelensky conceded

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that the situation there was difficult and that Russia was

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making gains.