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The Trump administration is pursuing a ceasefire deal between Russia and Ukraine to halt the fighting after more than three years.

Russia’s illegal seizure of Crimea from Ukraine 11 years ago was quick and bloodless. But Kyiv and most of the world never recognized Moscow’s annexation of the strategic peninsula.