The United States and Russia are preparing to meet in the Middle East to conduct negotiations that will hopefully end the invasion of Ukraine.

President Donald Trump spoke with Russian President Vladimir Putin for almost two hours on a Tuesday phone call that U.S. and Ukrainian leaders hoped would push the Kremlin to end its invasion.

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