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We begin in Germany, where talks are continuing at the annual Munich Security Conference.
This is where world leaders gather to debate the most pressure,
pressing challenges to international security.
And much focus has been on how to end the war in Ukraine.
The meeting happens in the shadow of that phone call just a few days ago between President Trump
and the Russian President Vladimir Putin,
in which the leaders agreed to begin negotiations to end the war.
Mr.
Trump had said the US Russian and Ukrainian officials would meet in Munich,