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What will the peacekeepers protect?
In a bizarre outbrust from Moscow hours after Ukraine's largest drone attack of the war struck the capital, Sergei Lavrov said
This year the UK will spend £4.5 billion the highest ever
He addedToday I heard, 'Oh, we weren't invited'
Trump saidSince Russia now has the upper hand on the battlefield, time is on its side in terms of peace negotiations. But the US is eager to withdraw from the crisis, ignoring the feelings of Europeans to some degree,
Wang said
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China has been calling for political settlement through dialogue and negotiation since the first day of the Ukraine crisis, and has been actively working for peace and pushing for talks,
Mao saidThey consistently talk about the root causes, which … are about the domestic politics in Ukraine, and even more important than that, the European security architecture, which would be the role of NATO. A simple ceasefire which doesn’t take that into account is of no interest to Russia. And Trump doesn’t appear to understand.”
He noted
We are working with more-considered options.”
He said ... and addedThe current Kyiv regime cannot be changed from inside the country. Its complete dismantling is needed,
the report statesCeasefire to Putin and Russia means, ‘My enemies are weak fools and are going to let me keep attacking while they stop’.”
He wrote
There is a paradox in these talks and peace initiatives – Ukraine and Russia are both vying for Donald Trump’s attention and seeking to improve their positions with his help,
Naumov said in a commentary
Moscow has every reason to believe that … if this process lands anywhere, it will land in a place that is more or less on Russia’s terms, as long as the process is being driven by Washington,
Greene saidAs for the settlement of the situation, I would like to emphasize that it shouldn’t be aimed at a brief truce — some sort of a break for regrouping troops and rearmament in order to continue the conflict — but a long-term peace,
Putin has said
Russia could say ‘yes, but’ to a ceasefire offer, accepting a 30-day truce on condition that an embargo is imposed on arms supplies to Ukraine,
Markov wrotePeace would allow Russia to influence Ukrainian politics and use peaceful means to ensure friendly relations,
Markov saidThe sort of ceasefire that it might be interested in is quite clearly not the kind of ceasefire that the Ukrainians or the Europeans might be interested in, although the Americans may be more malleable on that,
he addedIt’s not clear what would be the benefit for Russia,
it says,
Zelensky has passed the test of wanting peace. It is now up to Putin to show his card."
Speaking about the Ukrainian President, Republican Mr Graham said
If they do not pursue the ceasefire with the same vigour as Ukraine, there will be hell to pay."
He added
We've got some conversations that are happening on the phone and in person and in person with some of our representatives over the next couple of days,
said Vance, who also tangled with ZelenskyTrump is likely to find that Putin believes he now has the upper hand in relations with the US because of his sense that the west has lost its dominance in global affairs.”
As John Lough, an associate fellow at Chatham House, wrote presciently last year