Ukraine and its supporters in Washington and Europe had worried that Trump would return to the White House with the view that Kyiv was the main barrier to ending the war. But the president-elect’s social media posts suggest he views Putin and not Ukraine as the problem, the two sources and former U.S. officials said.

NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte expressed concern about potential peace negotiations in the nearly three-year-long Russia-Ukraine war taking place without President Vladimir Putin “at the table,” calling the move “risky.

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