First, links to reports from Reuters, AP, National Public Radio, the Kyiv Independent, and Tass; others or at least headlines are accessible by clicking HERE, or scroll down. (UKRAINE 5-18-25 is HERE, or scroll down.  GAZA entry for this date, so far, is HERE, or scroll up.) — MCM

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FROM MAY  19  Trump says Russia, Ukraine to start ceasefire talks ‘immediately,’ by Reporting by Guy Faulconbridge, Vladimir Soldatkin, Max Hunder, Tom Balmforth, Maxim Rodionov, Susan Heavey Rami Ayyub and David Brunstrom | Reuters  MOSCOW / KYIV / WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said on Monday that Russia and Ukraine “will immediately start negotiations” toward a ceasefire and an end to their three-year-old war, speaking after he held a call with Russia’s President Vladimir Putin, and Putin said efforts to end the war . . . READ MORE . . .  Click HERE and HERE for reports from AP and NPR.

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FROM MAY  19  Zelensky responds to Putin’s call with Trump, by Tim Zadorozhnyy and Oleksiy Sorokin | The Kyiv Independent  President Volodymyr Zelensky on Monday rejected Vladimir Putin’s demand to withdraw Ukrainian troops from four partially occupied regions, after the Russian president, after a call with U.S. President Donald Trump, once again failed to agree to a full ceasefire. READ MORE . . .

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FROM MAY  19  Moscow ready to work with Kiev on memorandum on potential peace treaty — Putin. From Tass. SIRIUS, Federal Territory, Russia —Russia is ready to work with Ukraine on a memorandum on a future peace agreement that may include ceasefire issues and principles of the conflict settlement, Russian President Vladimir Putin said. “Russia is ready and . . . READ MORE . . .

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