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US and Russian officials converge in Alaska ahead of a highly anticipated meeting between Presidents Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin. The pair will meet for the first time in six years, as Trump tries to enact a key campaign pledge to end Russia's war in Ukraine. Trump, who has portrayed himself as a global peacemaker, hopes to leverage his personal relationship with Putin to achieve a ceasefire breakthrough where others have failed. He assessed there was a "25% chance" the meeting would not be successful. Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky has been excluded from the talks, and warned that any resolutions made in his absence will be meaningless. n18oc_world n18oc_crux
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