Aid groups have been contorting themselves to decypher and fit into the vague “humanitarian exemptions” glued on to US President Donald Trump’s aid freeze. It’s becoming clearer, however, how little those exemptions have mattered – if they were designed to at all – amid a full system shutdown. Trump rushes to end Ukraine war, but not on Ukraine’s termsFollowing repeated claims that he could end the war in Ukraine in one day, Trump announced on the eve of a major security conference in Germany that he was starting talks with Russia to end the three-year war. Russia controls a large swathe of eastern Ukraine, while Ukrainian forces occupy a much smaller area in Russia’s western Kursk region. African leaders had called for a ceasefire at a summit last week that Congolese President Félix Tshisekedi attended by video.