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Donald Trump raised eyebrows earlier this year by flying to Mexico to meet the country's president, but the Republican candidate viewed by many as the first pro-Moscow ticket in a US election appears to be dragging his feet this week in responding to repeated requests from the leader of a country facing two years of Russian aggression: Ukraine.

Addressing the annual Yalta European Strategy conference held in Kyiv on Sept. 16, Ukraine’s president publicly repeated a request to meet with the US presidential candidate whose positions on Mexican illegal immigrants and Russia-friendly comments top the list of his controversial policy positions.

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