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We are now closing the live blog for today. Until we resume tomorrow, you can keep up with all our ongoing Ukraine coverage here.
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Kuleba is a spokesman for the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry.
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Our analyst Robert Coalson notes that no one seems to have picked up on the fact that Putin spokesman Dmitry Peskov on Friday characterized U.S. "instructors or specialists" in Ukraine as indicative of the "participation of...third countries" -- inviting the question, in a conflict that Moscow has consistently described as a Ukrainian civil war and in which Putin just this week insisted his country has no troops, of who, exactly, is the "second country" in his assumption.
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