my cup is over flowing.

The truth is: Trump's intentions are far from clear.And for now, Ukrainian officials reject all talk of pressure, or the suggestion that Trump's arrival necessarily means peace talks are imminent.

"There's a lot of talk about negotiations, but it's an illusion," says Mykhailo Podolyak, advisor to the head of President Zelensky's office."No negotiation process can take place because Russia has not been made to pay a high enough price for this war."For all Kyiv's misgivings about negotiating while Russian forces continue their inexorable advance in the east, it's clear that President Zelensky is anxious to position himself as the sort of man Trump can do business with.

The Ukrainian leader was quick to congratulate Trump on his election victory and wasted little time sending senior officials to meet the president-elect's team.With the help of France's President Emmanuel Macron, Zelensky also secured a meeting with Trump when the two men visited Paris for the reopening of Notre Dame cathedral.

"What we're seeing now is a very smart strategy exercise by President Zelensky," his former foreign minister Dmytro Kuleba told the US Council on Foreign Relations in December.

Zelensky, he said, was "signalling constructiveness and readiness to engage with President Trump.""Cosa nostra is like marriage. You are married to this wife and you stay with her all your life," one mafioso was overheard saying.

The clear implication was there was no leaving the Cosa nostra.Italian police have launched a series of raids targeting Mafia clans operating in and around the Sicilian capital Palermo.

More than 1,200 officers were involved in the operation, which the military Carabinieri force said was aimed at "dismantling" the area's Mafia.The raids, the biggest for several years, were seen as a bid by Italian authorities to stop the Mafia rebuilding its governing body known as a Cupola.