On his 80th birthday, US President Donald Trump received separate phone calls from Russia's Vladimir Putin and Ukraine's Volodymyr Zelensky. Both leaders discussed their respective visions for ending Ukraine's ongoing conflict, according to France 24. The back-to-back diplomatic outreach underscores continued efforts at the highest levels to broker a resolution to the more than four-year war.

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