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Blaming Ukraine for starting the war is some kind of absurdity. As Ukrainians, we cannot understand this,
soldier Ivan Banias told Agence France-Presse (AFP) on the freezing streets of Kyiv I believe that the United States helped [Vladimir] Putin to break out of years of isolation,
he added, in some of his sharpest criticism yet of the new US administration I think the Russians want to see the war end... But I think they have the cards a little bit, because they've taken a lot of territory, so they have the cards,
Trump told reporters late Wednesday Together with America and Europe, peace can be more reliable, and this is our goal,
The rhetoric of Zelenskyy and many representatives of the Kyiv regime leaves much to be desired. The fact that Zelenskyy's rating is falling is an absolutely obvious trend,
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters Yes, the duped voters (of Ukraine) will still elect an anti-Russian president. But it won't be Zelenskyy,
Malofeyev said on Telegram Trump is 200 percent right,
We see that there are certain differences between Washington and Kyiv,
he added, accusing Ukraine of spending foreign taxpayers' money in an uncontrolled way and balking at attempts to hold it to account for funds spent in the past This is a negotiation. And in a negotiation, you negotiate. Ukraine wants to negotiate minerals, so we're talking about it."
A White House official added There was significant improvement in the recent draft and it is in conformity with Ukrainian law,
30,000 feels still on the high side, because the purpose of that force would be predominantly around reassurance and trying to instil some confidence in the Ukraine population and in the state.”
But a senior western official said Trump’s goal is to bring this war to an end. Period."
Europe needs to step up for their own defence as a partner - we can be friends and allies and have those tough conversations,
I will never accept any decisions between the United States and Russia about Ukraine, never, ... This is the war in Ukraine, against us, and it's our human losses."
Zelensky told NBC News' Kristen Welker on Meet the Press last week ... adding, The phrases he is saying are so deep and so correct. They are in total alignment with the way we see things. Of course, the cherry on the cake, an absolute cherry on the cake is this phrase—"
Solovyov said in reaction to Trump's comments, according to an English translation from the watchdog project Russian Media Monitor We have a situation where we haven't had elections in Ukraine, where we have martial law, essentially martial law in Ukraine, where the leader in Ukraine, I hate to say it, but he's down at 4 percent approval rating, and where a country has been blown to smithereens."
On a recent broadcast, Solovyov played a clip of Trump's press conference, in which the president said So, Ukraine has to have elections if it wants to sit at the negotiating table. That's it. Zelensky has nowhere to run. Trump reacted. He said that he is outdated and unpopular. Let me add from myself, he's also very, very weak. He is worthless, to put it correctly, he's worthless,
This is a common-sense plan. They may not like it but we're going to drive it forward and everybody will stop squawking when the fighting ends,
There's obviously a lot of frustration here,
If you’d told me just three months ago that these were the words of the US president, I would have laughed out loud."
Dmitry Medvedvev, a close Putin ally, wrote on X
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