MOSCOW — As the formal peace process for the Ukraine war bogged down last month, the country’s president, Volodymyr Zelensky, reached out for a direct meeting with President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia, an intermediary in the talks revealed on Nov. 12.
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Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky is briefed regarding the operational situation in the war zone of Donbas together with the country’s top defense leadership in a command post near the city of Avdiyivka, eastern Ukraine, on Oct. 14, 2019.