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NATO nations stress including Ukraine in talks. Several NATO allies are insisting that Ukraine and Europe must not be cut out of any peace negotiations, after U.S. President Donald Trump signaled that he would hold talks soon with Russian President Vladimir Putin. “There can be no negotiation about Ukraine without Ukraine,” U.K. Defense Secretary John Healey told reporters at NATO headquarters, as the organization’s 32 defense ministers met for talks on Ukraine. The United States has rattled NATO by saying that Ukraine should never join and that European allies should take responsibility for Ukraine’s security.

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