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View Online    TIPSHEET TIPSHEET   Pelosi visits Kyiv, meets with Ukraine president BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS © Ukrainian Presidential Press Office via AP Speaker Nancy Pelosi has led a congressional delegation to Kyiv to meet with Ukraine's president before heading to Poland for talks with officials there on Sunday.   Pelosi, a California Democrat and second in line to the presidency after the vice president, is the highest-ranking American leader to visit Ukraine since the start of the war, and her visit on Saturday marks a major show of continuing support for the country's struggle against Russia. 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