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The enemy is still fighting back, the flags were for designation.
Yet Russian Telegram source Archangel Spetsnaz also stated
It looks like the Ukrainian Armed Forces have completely left the city
Military analyst Yan Matveyev stated
We’ll take this offer now to the Russians, and we hope they’ll say yes to peace. The ball is now in their court,
Rubio added
We’re going to tell them this is what’s on the table, Ukraine is ready to stop shooting and start talking, and now it’ll be up to them to say yes or no.”
Afterwards, Mr Rubio said
Ukraine wants to stop shooting."
Rubio, standing alongside National Security Advisor Mike Waltz, did not detail exactly what was in this agreement but said
We hope the Russians answer to that,
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Who can believe that the Russia of today will stop at Ukraine?”
Mr. Macron asked in a speech to the nation last week
Washington has become Nero’s court,
he declared, alluding to the tyrannical Roman emperor,I would see perhaps 15,000 to 20,000 European troops, enough to deter, but not so large as to be seen by Moscow as a NATO battle corps,
said Camille Grand, a defense expert at the European Council on Foreign Relations in Brussels.jpg)
We were at war with a dictator,
Mr. Malhuret said, alluding to Mr. Putin
We’ll make a deal, and when the deal is made, I don’t think we talk about security,
Mr. Trump said, suggesting Mr. Putin could be trustedRussia continues to publicly claim that it wants peace while offering no concessions of its own in sharp contrast with the concessions Ukraine has already offered."
In its Russian Offensive Campaign assessment published on March 10, the ISW said
They're not peace talks. They're capitulation demands given to Ukraine by the Russian Federation and its client state, the United States. It's all maskirovka, designed to fail because invader Russia makes no concessions at all. The goal is to turn public opinion against Ukraine."
Michael MacKay, a pro-Ukraine X user, wrote on the platformTerritorial concessions to what is now called Ukraine were made by the Soviet leadership during the formation of the USSR."
Lavrov also ruled out making any territorial concessions to Ukraine before the U.S. and Russia's meeting in Saudi Arabia on February 17, sayingI think both sides need to come to an understanding that there's no military solution to this situation. The Russians can't conquer all of Ukraine, and obviously it'll be very difficult for Ukraine in any reasonable time period to sort of force the Russians back all the way to where they were in 2014.
Rubio added
The first stages [of ending the war] could be the release of prisoners and truce in the sky—ban on missiles, long-ranged drones, bombs on energy and other civilian infrastructure—and truce in the sea immediately, if Russia will do the same."
After his explosive meeting with Trump at the White House, Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky proposed in a March 4 post on X, formerly known as Twitter
Russian President V.V. Putin has repeatedly said, we are always ready for negotiations. But at the same time, our national interests must be guaranteed. The root causes of the conflict in Ukraine must be eradicated,
The ISW cited a magazine interview with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov released by the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs' on March 10, in which Lavrov said ... echoing Putin's repeated demandsThe most important thing that we have to leave here with is a strong sense that Ukraine is prepared to do difficult things, like the Russians are going to have to do difficult things to end this conflict or at least pause it in some way, shape or form."
According to the U.S. Department of State's transcription of U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio's remarks to the press, ... he saidTrump is not just a bad president, he’s a bad human being, rotten to his very core,
Minchenko said
We partially try to solve this by using our data and the data from our allies, the real ones,
Romanenko quipped, referring to the United Kingdom and France – nations that are still aiding Ukraine