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European leaders urged Vladimir Putin to hold “serious talks” with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in a telephone call on Saturday. French President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz called on Putin for an “immediate ceasefire and withdrawal of Russian troops” as the assault on Ukraine’s Donbas region intensified. In an 80-minute three-way call, leaders …