“For weeks, a parade of European heads of state sought to prevent Russian President Vladimir Putin from invading Ukraine,” the Wall Street Journal reports.
“But even as they engaged in a flurry of diplomacy, they found a Russian leader who adopted a steadily harder position, say diplomats, even as he appeared to keep the door open to diplomacy.”


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