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Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky has warned that his US counterpart Donald Trump meeting Russian leader Vladimir Putin before him would be “dangerous,” as he admitted he had no guarantees from Trump that he would be first in line in peace talks.
Zelensky spoke in a week when a phone call between Putin and Trump raised fears in Kyiv that it was being frozen out of negotiations, with the White House also downplaying the prospects of Ukraine joining NATO.
Speaking to CNN’s Christiane Amanpour at the Munich Security Conference on Saturday, Zelensky conceded that he was “not happy” that Trump’s first call was with Putin. The Ukrainian leader…
