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Just last year here in Davos, I ended my speech with the words,

Europe needs to know how to defend itself.

A year has passed and nothing has changed.

The first trilateral talks between Ukrainian, Russian and US officials will take place today.

President Trump has been heavily criticized for incorrectly saying NATO troops

stayed away from the front line during the fight in Afghanistan.

Hello, you're listening to Cheat Sheet on Friday the 23rd of January. I'm Anna Jones.

And I'm Kamali Melbourne. And also ahead in today's episode, TikTok has sealed a deal with the US

to keep its business running there by creating a new entity separate from the Chinese

operations.

Ukrainian, Russian and US officials will hold their first ever set of trilateral talks

to try and bring about an end to Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

They're going to meet in the United Arab Emirates later on today.

Now, this all follows the flurry of meetings that we've had in recent days between Donald

Trump and Vladimir Zelensky and Davos, as well as Steve Wickoff and Jared Kushner,

who've been in Moscow meeting Vladimir Putin.

Well, yeah, and it begs the question, how close are we to a deal?

And we've had various comments being made by those involved.

President Zelensky said yesterday that a peace plan was nearly ready and that really matters.

Donald Trump's special envoy, meanwhile, Steve Wickoff, as well as Jared Kushner, have landed in

Moscow. They held talks late last night with Vladimir Putin in the Kremlin. And Steve

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