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The Rest of the World Report | September 14, 2026 — Morning Edition

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US special envoy Jared Kushner said this weekend that a Ukraine peace deal is essentially finished, waiting only on Kyiv’s agreement to withdraw behind a territorial line set by Vladimir Putin.

Speaking at the Yalta European Strategy forum in Kyiv on September 11-12, Kushner said Putin laid out his territorial demands during talks in Moscow on…

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