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Former US President Joe Biden's memoir Promise Me, America, due for release on 17 November, describes Zelenskyy as moody, stubborn and ungrateful, and describes Putin as slouching like a teenager, according to Ukrainska Pravda. Biden also writes that he refused a request from Trump's transition team to authorise direct negotiations with Putin before the inauguration, which he said would have amounted to a de facto capitulation at Ukraine's expense, The Wall Street Journal reported. The excerpts did not include a response from the parties named.