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Zelenskiy vows to defend ‘fortress’ Bakhmut, hosts EU leaders in Kyiv

Zelenskiy vows to defend ‘fortress’ Bakhmut, hosts EU leaders in Kyiv

TOM BALMFORTH and DAN PELESCHUK UKRAINIANS will fight "for as long as we can" to hold the eastern city of Bakhmut, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy vowed on Friday, as he hosted European Union leaders to discuss further sanctions on Russia and Kyiv's EU prospects. Shortly after Zelenskiy spoke, air raid sirens sounded once again in Kyiv and across the country - a regular occurrence during months of Russian missile attacks on Ukraine's energy infrastructure far from the battlefields in the east and south - but there were no immediate reports of new air strikes. The head of the EU's executive Commission…
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Quoting Irish poet, Biden ends EU trade war in renewal of transatlantic ties

Quoting Irish poet, Biden ends EU trade war in renewal of transatlantic ties

STEVE HOLLAND, PHILIP BLEKINSOP, MARINE STRAUSS and ROBIN EMMOT U.S. President Joe Biden ended one front in a Trump-era trade war when he met European Union leaders on Tuesday by agreeing a truce in a transatlantic dispute over aircraft subsidies that has dragged on for 17 years. Quoting Irish poet W. B. Yeats at the start of his first EU-U.S. summit as president, Biden also said the world was shifting and that Western democracies needed to come together. "The world has changed, changed utterly," Biden, an Irish-American, said, citing from the poem Easter 1916, in remarks that pointed towards the…
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