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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Rowena Mason and Peter Walker

Boris Johnson tried to persuade Donald Trump to back Ukraine on US tour

Boris Johnson
Boris Johnson met Trump ‘to discuss the situation in Ukraine and the vital importance of Ukrainian victory’. Photograph: Brandon Bell/Getty

Boris Johnson has held discussions with Donald Trump about Ukraine during his tour of the US, in an apparent attempt to make the Ukrainian case to the sceptical former US president.

Johnson met Trump “to discuss the situation in Ukraine and the vital importance of Ukrainian victory”, his spokesperson said. It is understood that they held the talks on Thursday.

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