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Clandestine Kremlin meetings just sent tremors through CIA headquarters
What happened
AlterNet reports that Donald Trump suspended sanctions for six months against countries buying Russian oil or refined products, a move the outlet says could deliver billions of dollars to Russia during its war against Ukraine. Trump publicly thanked Vladimir Putin and later announced an “energy ceasefire,” but Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said the purported agreement was “news for me,” while Russia and Ukraine continued striking energy infrastructure.
The headline’s “tremors” refer chiefly to earlier private Trump-Putin contacts. According to reporting cited by…
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