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Good evening. I'm John Yang.

President Trump and Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelensky said today that they are closing in on a peace proposal aimed at ending the war with Russia.

The two leaders met today at Mar-a-Lago in Florida.

We have two willing parties. We have two willing countries. They want to see it at the people of Ukraine wanted to end and the people of Russia

wanted to end.

The two leaders wanted to end.

Today's talks involved just the United States and Ukraine.

While there's been no official response from Moscow, in the days leading up to the meeting,

Russia intensified attacks on Kibb.

Zelensky says that's evidence that President Vladimir Putin isn't interested in ending the war.

Michael McFal teaches at Stanford University, and he was U.S. ambassador to Russia in the Obama administration.

Mr. Ambassador, President Trump talked to Putin for about an hour beforehand.

He said he's going to call him soon after this meeting with Zelensky.

What do you think his reactions is or is going to be to what is in this proposal?

Well, he's already stated it.

He's already been on TV earlier today, yesterday, and then his foreign policy advisor,

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