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MOSCOW-NEW YORK – The cautious optimism that was breathed a few days ago after the first Muscovite openings to dialogue has already vanished. After doubts about the withdrawal, the clashes in the Donbass and the peremptory Russian responses to US security proposals, the West finds it hard to see a diplomatic way out of the Ukrainian crisis. With US President Joe Biden predicting a Russian invasion “in the next few days”.