Putin Puts Ukraine Truce on Ice in Bid for Trump Partnership

Vladimir Putin on March 18.Photographer: Maxim Shemetov/AFP/Getty Images
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Vladimir Putin used his phone call with Donald Trump on Tuesday to say that the US could get played by Russia — literally.

Putin was talking about ice hockey, but it was also a reference to Trump’s efforts to get a quick ceasefire in Ukraine, whose government fears the US president will agree to major concessions demanded by the Kremlin in order to seal a truce.