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When Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko visited the Trump administration this week, he lauded the U.S. for continuing to apply pressure on Russia for violating his country’s territorial sovereignty and stood by the framework of the Minsk Agreement to halt the fighting in the Donbas region of Ukraine. This comes as U.S.-Russian relations have only become more tense in recent days.

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