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I'm Tim Franks.
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First, though, is an end to Russia's war on Ukraine within sight, within grasp.
Put to one side for the moment the bigger swings in mood and language we've had from President Trump over the prospects.
Listen instead to the words of his rather more cautious top diplomat, Marco Rubio.
We've made tremendous progress, he said, after talks on Sunday in Geneva with Ukrainians.
To put this in context, the US Secretary of State's meeting followed the leaking of a peace plan,
apparently drawn up by Russian and US officials that had widely been seen as delivering pretty much all of Moscow's demands.
So striking that Mr Rubio declared that there had been not just tremendous progress,
but that there were now,
after his talks with his Ukrainian counterparts, just a couple of issues to be resolved.