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During Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko’s meeting with the United States’ National Security Advisor John Bolton, both diplomats highlighted the recent improvements in relations between the two countries, as well as an opportunity for further progress.

“Today our cooperation allows us to draw some conclusions,” Poroshenko said during the meeting on August 24, Ukraine’s Independence Day. “The trade exchange [between the U.S. and Ukraine] has increased by 70 percent in just over a year. No other country shows such dynamics. This growth is a product of my White House negotiations with President Donald Trump last year, the arrival of American coal in Ukrainian stations, American nuclear fuel and agrarian investments, as well as many other things.”

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