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Exclusive: 'It felt like a trap.' How Ukraine was blindsided by Trump's Putin pivot

By Tim Zadorozhnyy

When U.S. envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner told Ukraine's delegation on Oct. 9 that President Donald Trump was preparing to lift sanctions on Russian diesel exports, the Ukrainians struggled to believe what they were hearing.

The delegation had traveled to the United States to discuss a

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