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As Trump Pushes on Russia-Ukraine Peace Plan, Zelensky’s Options Are Narrowing

The Ukrainian president’s options are narrowing as he is confronted with a 28-point proposal drafted by American and Russian envoys.

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The 148th Artillery Brigade preparing to fire at Russian targets in the Zaporizhzhia region of eastern Ukraine in October.
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Zelensky Says Ukraine Ready to ‘Honestly’ Engage With U.S. Peace Plan

The proposal, which the White House confirmed on Thursday without providing details, echoes many long-held Russian demands.

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Burying a Ukrainian soldier, Ihor Brozhek, 29, at a cemetery on the outskirts of Odesa in southern Ukraine this month.
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U.S.-Russian Peace Plan Would Force Ukraine to Cede Land and Cut Army

The 28-point proposal, which comes as the Trump administration tries to restart settlement talks, includes demands long rejected by Kyiv as nonstarters.

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A Ukrainian artillery unit firing a howitzer at Russian targets in the Dnipropetrovsk region, last month.
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Zelensky Under Siege as Corruption Case Shatters Ukraine’s Wartime Unity

An anti-Zelensky political coalition is coalescing as the president’s allies are accused of enriching themselves while the country’s soldiers die on the battlefield.

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Volodymyr Zelensky, the president of Ukraine, last month in Kyiv.
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Russian Missile Kills at Least 25 in Ukrainian Apartment Building

The attack was part of a wave of strikes across the country as President Volodymyr Zelensky seeks to revive stalled peace talks.

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Rescue workers at a residential building in Ternopil, Ukraine, on Wednesday. Such deadly attacks are relatively rare in the west of the country.
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Zelensky’s Image Is Stained as Corruption Inquiry Shakes His Inner Circle

The revelations are a remarkable reversal for the Ukrainian president, who once presented himself as a leader who would clean up the country’s politics.

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President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine has said he supports “every investigation carried out by law enforcement and anticorruption officials.”
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Angelina Jolie’s Driver in Ukraine Is Taken Away for the Draft

A frontline visit to bring attention to Russian drone attacks on civilians sheds an inadvertent light on the Ukrainian Army’s troop shortages.

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Angelina Jolie in Rome last month for a film festival. She has visited many conflict zones around the world in the past two decades.
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