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Ukraine says Russia has now been rejecting ceasefire calls for 100 days – Europe live

It has been 149 days since Trump took office promising to stop the war – and 100 days since Ukraine accepted the most recent US-backed ceasefire offerFor what it’s worth, Russia’s Vladimir Putin said on Thursday he was ready to meet with Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelenskyy but only during a “final phase” of negotiations “so as not to sit there and divide things up endlessly, but to put an end to it”.But his broader comments were not really conciliatory, and will do little to raise hopes of a negotiated settlement.“The strikes were carried out against military industries…