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Peace? What peace? The view from Ukraine

Trump, shtrump - in Kyiv and Lviv, people know they still face a long struggle

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Timothy Garton Ash
May 25, 2025
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Adeline’s lost homeland. When we talked, she shared with me this photo from a childhood holiday on a now Russian-occupied part of the Black Sea coast. She is the girl on the pony.

The next time a breathless news anchor talks about the prospect of a war-ending “deal”, with Ukraine “ceding land for peace”,…

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