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Putin defiant after Trump sanctions Russian oil companies over Ukraine
By Andrew Osborn, Jeff Mason and Timothy Gardner MOSCOW (Reuters) -Russian President Vladimir Putin remained defiant on Thursday after U.S. President Donald Trump hit Russia's two biggest oil companies with sanctions to pressure the Kremlin leader to end the war in Ukraine,

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