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And I'm Rosie Bloor.

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popularity, including in the West. But first...

In wartime, late nights are a luxury few Ukrainians can afford.

When curfew comes, the heads hit pillows and people chase sleep before the sirens roll.

So it was Saturday morning when most began to absorb the news of the Anchorage Summit.

Oliver Carroll, our Ukraine correspondent, has been reflecting on a tumultuous weekend.

The first headlines, they were restrained.

The feared grand bargain had not materialised.

An MP, I know, even sent me a note.

Disaster averted, he wrote.

But as the day went on and people started to read between the lines, analyzing how

things were said, what went unsaid, the mood darkened. Officials told me they were shocked that the

Americans had, perhaps without realizing it, seemingly aligned themselves with the Russian view of the war.

Speaking privately, some were pretty rude about

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