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I want to believe that the United States will stay by our side but we have to be prepared for that not to be the case,
Macron said bluntly on Wednesday
We have taken a step back
Trump's National Security Adviser Mike Waltz saidEurope faces a clear and present danger, and therefore Europe has to be able to protect itself,
European Commission chief Ursula von der Leyen told reporters, calling it "a watershed moment" for Ukraine and for the continent
Who can believe that this Russia of today will stop at Ukraine?"
Macron asked in a nationwide addressWe are very thankful that we are not alone,
said the Ukrainian leaderWe hope that next week we will have a meaningful meeting,
he said
We work publicly and transparently with American partners, aiming to preserve bipartisan support of Ukraine."
Both Tymoshenko and Poroshenko pushed back against the idea that they wished to hold elections during wartime, with Poroshenko saying in a statement to Politico
Put Ukraine in a position of strength relative to Russia... enable Ukraine so much that they are able to change the dynamics on the battlefield so that Putin cannot achieve additional gains at acceptable cost."
David PetraeusPausing military aid and intelligence-sharing to Ukraine now will only enable and embolden Putin to continue his assaults with more lethality,
he addedIf Ukraine loses, Russia is going to enter Baltic states, NATO states, then the US will have to send their sons and daughters exactly in the same way as we are sending our sons and daughters to war."
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We've seen an avalanche of different disinformation campaigns, influence campaigns, different means trying to portray President Zelenskyy personally as a bad leader, the person that should resign, the person that made everything wrong and that Ukraine is bad, corrupt and should stop the war. And that Ukraine wants to prolong the war rather than stop it,
Roman Osadchuk, an open source and disinformation researcher at the National University of Kyiv, told DWNewsGuard has seen a significant increase in false claims about Ukraine on US social media in recent weeks, particularly since Donald Trump accused Volodymyr Zelensky of being ungrateful for US military support,
Madeline Roache, managing editor at misinformation watchdog NewsGuard, told DWI want to appeal to those who are trying to raise the numbers on our music video... as if we were making a movie, as if the war in Ukraine was a movie... We are here, we are fighting, we are evacuating, we are winning."
He responded to allegations of producing a fake war movie in another TikTok videoMr. President, how was the trip? How do you feel?"
one of the reporters askedEveryone needs to make sure that Russia, as the sole source of this war, accepts the need to end it. This can be proved by two forms of silence that are easy to establish and monitor, namely, no attacks on energy and other civilian infrastructure – truce for missiles, bombs, and long-range drones, and the second is truce on the water, meaning no military operations in the Black Sea,
he said
This is a dead horse effort and shows how little the team who met either Ukrainian understands the reality in Ukraine,
Tymofiy Mylovanov, the president of the Kyiv school of economics said on social media
We see that it’s not just the axis of evil and Russia trying to revise the world order. The US is finally destroying this order.”
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Ukraine needs to hold an election. Zelensky would lose by a landslide.”
On Thursday, Trump’s ally Elon Musk tweetedIf the US wants a different president in Ukraine, they should be meeting with General Zaluzhnyi. But I have a feeling Zaluzhnyi would be even tougher for them to negotiate with than Zelenskyy.”
He continuedOur key task today is to protect Ukraine’s interests and ensure its European development. This is the responsibility of every Ukrainian politician, regardless of whether they are in power or in the opposition.”
He added