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Trump says Zelenskyy should get "somebody else to negotiate"

President Trump told reporters outside the White House on Monday, "Maybe it's time for Zelenskyy to get somebody else to negotiate" to end the war with Russia, and said Zelenskyy "should have had settled this war a long time ago." Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy told U.S. senators Monday that U.S. arms shipments were being delayed and intelligence sharing restricted. Trump also said he would meet Russia's Vladimir Putin and China's Xi Jinping in China next month; Ukraine's foreign minister objected to a meeting without Kyiv.

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President Trump saysZelenskyy "should have had settled this war a long time ago"; he defended sanctions waivers for Russia as a way to keep Moscow at the negotiating table.
Ukraine saysZelenskyy says the administration's decisions are "hard to explain between friends," with arms shipments delayed and intelligence sharing restricted; Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha objected to a U.S.-Russia-China meeting without Kyiv.

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