The Nato secretary general, Mark Rutte, said it was a good thing the Ukrainians had come to the negotiating table, and that Russian president, Vladimir Putin, now had to play ball.
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‘All the pressure is on him,’ Rutte said, speaking at a meeting of EU leaders in Albania. He added that Putin had made a mistake by sending a low-level delegation to talks in Turkey
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