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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has said he hopes the war in Donbas will be over in a year.

“We proposed that Minsk [talks] should continue and that we should resolve the issue with a ceasefire, and we want to stop this war as soon as possible,” he said, speaking at a joint press conference with President of the European Council Donald Tusk and President of the European Commission Jean-Claude Juncker in Kyiv July 8.

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