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Volodymyr Zelensky gave Melania Trump the Order of Princess Olga, Ukraine's highest award for women, for helping broker a five-day truce in Russian-occupied Oleshky that let hundreds of Ukrainians be evacuated. BBC Monitoring's Vitaly Shevchenko said the award shows the gap between Kyiv's official praise of Donald Trump and how Ukrainian commentators see him, and that flattery is meant to keep US intelligence sharing and missile interceptors flowing.
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