The clock is ticking. President Donald Trump has just 50 days to make a Ukraine deal if he wants the recognition he craves.

He’s grown increasingly impatient with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s reluctance to “start accepting things” in a proposal his billionaire golf buddy Steve Witkoff crafted with the Russians. “Russia is fine with it. ... His people love it,” Trump told reporters on Dec. 7. Not really.

On Dec. 8, Zelensky said Ukraine would not surrender the territory Witkoff had offered to Russia. The American envoy had apparently told Putin adviser Yuri Ushakov Russia could have the Donetsk region, according to a leaked transcript of their conversation published by Bloomberg News.

Witkoff went on to coach Ushakov on how to handle Trump, leaving little doubt which side he

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