Ukraine talks: Will Ukraine and Russia negotiate a full peace deal?

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  Hello and welcome to World Business Report from the BBC World Service.

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  I'm Roger Hearing and on this edition, the talks in Washington to try to end the war in Ukraine.

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  We'll find out what some of Ukraine's business community wants to hear.

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  Also,

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  Norway's $2 trillion sovereign wealth fund begins to divest from some Israeli companies in protest at events in Gaza.

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  What will that mean?

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  Heating up demand, the new appetite for air conditioning in Europe.

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  And filmmakers find Georgia is no longer on their minds when it comes to shooting movies.

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  But first, in Washington, President Trump,

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  President Zelensky of Ukraine and European leaders have been cloistered together in the White House to try to find a way to end Europe's longest and bloodiest war

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  since 1945.

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  What we're being told so far is little.

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  President Trump has said the United States will help European nations provide Ukraine with security guarantees in the event of a peace settlement with Russia.

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  And the Financial Times has just reported that Ukraine has offered a $100 billion weapons deal.

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  order to win that security guarantee from the US.

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  But what many Ukrainians desperately want is peace, not at any price.

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  And that includes the business community who've been struggling to keep the economy there going in the face of bombardment from Russia.

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  Let's talk to Vera Savchenko,

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  who's CEO of BDO Ukraine and is also on the Recovery Committee of the European Business Association.

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  She's joining us live on the line from Dnipro in South Ukraine.

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