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BRUSSELS – Ukraine’s President Petro Poroshenko expressed guarded optimism on Nov. 24 that a U.S. administration under president-elect Donald Trump will continue to back sanctions against Russia.

At a summit with top European Union officials in Brussels, Poroshenko said Trump had raised the annexation of Crimea and the conflict in the east of Ukraine in a conversation with him.

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