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Oct 21, 2025
New York [US], October 21: The Kremlin said on Monday that substantial groundwork was still needed before a planned summit in Budapest between Russian President Vladimir Putin and US President Donald Trump aimed at ending the war in Ukraine. "There's still a lot of homework to be done," Putin's spokesman Dmitry Peskov said, according to Russia's TASS news agency.
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