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The biggest problem with Trump is that Putin has already caught him and trapped him. Trump was trapped because of his desire to reach a quick peace deal. To which Putin replied: ‘I can make sure you get a quick deal if nothing else matters’,
The Russian military is really on its last breath. What we're seeing is they basically cannot maintain offensive combat power. The best they can do is just feed men into this meat grinder and gain almost no territory.”
Speaking in an exclusive interview with investment platform Saxo, Mr Kinzinger, a vocal supporter of Ukraine, said The most powerful leverage Trump has on Ukraine is to threaten non-delivery of weapons. We have, in my view, six months before we would really start to feel the lack of weapons on the front line.”
Former Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba told POLITICO Our focus is on achieving a ceasefire as soon as possible, and ultimately a permanent peace,
Trump said during a joint press conference with Macron It's our state, it's our land, our territory. We want the war to end as soon as possible because we have no strength left."
Inna Zaitseva, also 34, said This year should be the year of the beginning of a real, lasting peace. Putin will not gift us this peace, nor will he give it to us in exchange for anything. We have to win peace with strength, wisdom and unity - with our cooperation,
For 300 years they (the Russians) couldn't break us - they tried, but they couldn't,
said Yevheniia Bondini, 34. We have to scale up as Europeans, we have to speed up ... My guess is that we have a couple of months to take all necessary decisions. Otherwise, we'll be too late,
Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen told the summit We see the issue of guarantees for the talks between Presidents,
We want peace but we don’t want an agreement that is weak.”
I think it’s to the very much benefit of Russia to make a deal and to go on with leading Russia in a very positive way.”
No, in fact, to be frank, we paid. We paid 60% of the total effort. It was like the US: loans, guarantees, grants. We have $230bn in frozen assets in Europe, Russian assets. But this is not collateral of a loan because it is not our belonging. So they are frozen.”
Macron leaned over to touch Trump’s arm and interjected He may come in this week or next week to sign the agreement, which would be nice,
Yeah, he will accept it,
I think it’s super important to go to the peace. But my strong point was to say: ‘Let’s try to get something first which can be assessed, checked and verified.’
If you believe that, it’s OK with me. They get their money back, and we don’t. But now we do.”
Just so you understand, Europe is loaning the money to Ukraine. They’re getting their money back.”
I believe that Emmanuel agrees with me on many of the most important issues,
We hope that both US and UA leaders might sign and endorse it in Washington the soonest to showcase our commitment for decades to come”.
The negotiations have been very constructive, with nearly all key details finalised,
she said in a post that was taken down on social media for several hours before being reinstated
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