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I'm Nick Myers, and at 13 hours GMT on Monday the 14th of July, these are our main stories.

A U-turn from Donald Trump over critical air defense systems for Ukraine.

Meanwhile, his envoys in Kiev ahead of what the president said would be a major statement on Russia.

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We start this edition in Ukraine, where President Zelensky and the US envoy Keith Kellogg have met in Kiev.

Pictures show the two men shaking hands across a table with beaming smiles.

It comes after Sunday's announcement by President Trump that the US would provide Kiev with key military equipment, including Patriot Air Defenses. He made the announcement at Andrew's Air Force Base

near Washington. I haven't agreed on the number yet, but they're going to have some because they

do need protection. But the European Union is paying for it. We're not paying anything for it.

But we will send it. It will be business for us, and we will send them patriots, which they

desperately need, because Putin really surprised a lot of people. He talks nice and then he

bombs everybody in the evening. So there's a little bit of a problem there. I don't like it.

I know Sossovson is a Ukrainian MP for the opposition Golos-Zmin party.

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