Trump’s Ukraine ceasefire is slipping away
The American president increasingly looks like Russia’s willing dupe
He promised to end the war in Ukraine within a day. Now, insiders say, Donald Trump hopes to secure a ceasefire within his first 100 days—ie, by the end of this month. He has started to refer to the conflict as “Biden’s war”. But if it drags on, he worries it will increasingly become his.
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This article appeared in the Europe section of the print edition under the headline “The vanishing Ukraine ceasefire”
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