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The pressure should be on the one who does not want to stop the war. The pressure should be on Russia. Only decisive action can end this war, which has been going on for years,
Putin will try to drag everyone into endless discussions, just as he did with [the] Minsk [agreements], wasting days, weeks and months in meaningless talks while his weapons continue to kill people. Every condition Putin puts forward is just an attempt to block all diplomacy. This is how Russia works. And we’ve been warning about this,
the Ukrainian president said There is still much to be done, but the president has nevertheless identified with President Trump's position,
We had very good and productive discussions with President Vladimir Putin of Russia yesterday, and there is a very good chance that this horrible, bloody war can finally come to an end,
Trump said in a post on his Truth Social platform When Mr Witkoff brings all the information to President Trump, we will determine the timing of a conversation,
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters There are reasons to be cautiously optimistic."
Commenting on Waltz's remarks, Peskov said Friday There is an understanding on both sides that such a call is needed,
There are certainly some grounds for cautious optimism,
Peskov said of the ceasefire proposal We are not setting conditions that complicate the process; Russia is,
He is in fact preparing a rejection at present, because Putin is, of course, scared to tell President Trump that he wants to continue this war, that he wants to kill Ukrainians,
Russia is the only party that wants the war to continue and diplomacy to break down,
Zelenskyy said on X after a call with the secretary of state of the Holy See, Cardinal Pietro Parolin Trump’s words about the Kursk region have nothing to do with reality.”
Artem Kariakin, a Ukrainian soldier who was previously involved in the Kursk offensive, said After seven months, we simply withdrew. There was no encirclement,
one senior security official told the Guardian on Thursday Reports of the alleged ‘encirclement’ of Ukrainian units by the enemy in the Kursk region are false and fabricated by the Russians for political manipulation and to exert pressure on Ukraine and its partners,
Ukraine’s general staff wrote in a statement published on its media channels I have strongly requested to President Putin that their lives be spared. This would be a horrible massacre, one not seen since World War II. God bless them all!!!
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