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It's Thursday, February 20th.
I'm Luke Vargas for the Wall Street Journal and here is the AM edition of what's News, the top headlines and business stories moving your world today.
Lets begin today with the escalating war of words between President Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.
After calling Zelensky a dictator yesterday, Trump repeated his attacks last night at a Saudi investment summit being held in Miami, blaming him for Ukraine's current misfortune.
I asked the Journal's Ukraine coverage chief, James Marson, how Kyiv is reacting to its sudden sidelining by Washington as the Trump administration lays the groundwork for talks with Russia to end the war.
So Ukrainians have been very angry and upset about this.
On the other hand, they are defiant.
They say, yes, the US Is our biggest supporter, possibly was our biggest supporter, but we will fight on.
We have no choice but to fight on.
That's also coming from President Zelenskyy.