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First of all, he’s fighting a much bigger entity, okay, much bigger. When he was, you know, talking so brave ... Zelensky was fighting a much bigger entity, much bigger, much more powerful. He shouldn’t have done that, because we could have made a deal, and it would have been a deal that would have been, it would have been a nothing deal,
I could have made that deal so easily. And Zelensky decided ‘I want to fight,’
We have always said that we are ready for negotiations and compromises,
Putin said at the time, after saying Yes, he’s ready to negotiate a deal. He’d like to stop this,
I think they have a lot of power over Russia, so I think Russia should want to make a deal,
Soldiers are being killed on a daily basis at numbers that we haven’t seen in decades,
While many see potential for stronger US support under Trump, there remains widespread concern about his past remarks on Ukraine's sovereignty and his ability to broker a sustainable peace."
Our research highlights the nuanced and often ambivalent perspectives Ukrainians have toward Donald Trump's presidency."
Professor Olga Onuch of the University of Manchester, the project's lead researcher, said in a story published on her university's website Our effort to reach a peace deal between Russia and Ukraine are now hopefully underway. It is so important to get that done. Millions of soldiers are getting killed. Millions of Russians and millions of Ukrainians. It has to end,
What they're saying ... Trump said in his video address to Davos attendees He liked the idea of cutting down... Putin wanted to do it. China would have joined. It would have been an unbelievable thing for the planet,
Well, we'll look into that. We're talking to Zelensky,
I’m not looking to hurt Russia,
Easy way or the hard way
Trump squares up to Putin with chilling threat We're going to be talking with President Putin very soon, and we'll see what, how it all happens. We're going to look at it.”
I think Russia's going to be in big trouble,
Zelenskyy told me he wants to make a deal.” ... I don’t know if Putin does … He might not. I think he should make a deal. I think he’s destroying Russia by not making a deal,
But, he added in the Oval Office on the first day of his second presidency ... a reference to the country’s failing economy and inflation I love Europe, I love the countries of Europe.”
Still, while Trump has previously slammed NATO members for their lackluster defense spending and other perceived ills, on Thursday in his WEF address he seemed to strike a conciliatory tone, saying Well you’re gonna have to ask Russia. Ukraine is ready to make a deal.”
Asked whether he believed the war in Ukraine would end by the time the WEF returned to Davos in a year, Trump said It’s time to end it.”
We do really welcome such strong messages from President Trump and we believe that he will be the winner. And we believe that we have an additional chance to get new dynamic in diplomatic efforts to end this war.”
In remarks at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Ukraine’s top diplomat said
