Peace talks advanced to the one-page-memo stage while warships still crowded the shipping lanes.
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▸ Wikipedia — Ukrainian president announces that Hungary has returned cash and gold seized from Ukraine's Oschadbank after outgoing Hungarian prime minister Viktor Orbán ordered the government t