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With the Trump administration, we are now in the realm of thinking about what is possible,
Dmitriev said
For a war to end, at least one of the parties must change their war aims,
said Hein Goemans, a professor of political science at the University of Rochester and a specialist in end-stage conflictsI don’t think he is going to back on his word, ... I’ve known him for a long time.”
he said, adding
Russia hasn’t really changed its war aims,
Goemans said, following an initial reassessment when its blitzkrieg failed to take Kyiv and topple Zelensky.jpg)
We are continuing our communication through different channels.”
The Russian Foreign Ministry did not comment on the meeting, and Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov merely said
Everyone goes to Putin individually, and he tells each person something different,
the source saidMoscow may actually underestimate right now that there's not little patience in the White House and that having a full ceasefire is for Donald Trump a major aim of his policy,
Fix said
From Russia's perspective, there's this idea that you can continue to have peace talks with the United States and advance the U.S.-Russia bilateral agenda, to try to normalize relations, to ask for sanctions, relief, and so on, without a full ceasefire,
Fix saidI don't think sanctions or any economic tool alone is going to be the end-all-be-all, ... even if it doesn't make Putin budge, at
he told the Washington Examiner, acknowledgingPutin retains maximized goals, and his long-standing objective, which he has not abandoned, is to make Ukraine a vassal state and to more broadly restructure the security order in Europe and Ukraine is at the heart of that latter ambition,
said John Hardie, deputy director of the Russia Program at the Foundation for Defense of DemocraciesRussia doesn't want the ceasefire,
Fix continuedThe aims on both sides are just completely different,
Fix said of the negotiationsFor several weeks now, there has been a U.S. proposal for an unconditional ceasefire, and almost every day, in response to this proposal, there are Russian drones, bombs, artillery shelling, and ballistic strikes,
Zelensky said last month in a video posted to social mediaI was very angry, pissed off when Putin started getting into Zelensky, his credibility, and started talking about new leadership in Ukraine,
Trump said
Despite our optimism about possible agreements on Ukraine with the U.S., we understand there will be no rapid decrease in sanctions pressure,
RSPP President Alexander Shokhin was quoted as saying by the state-run news agency TASSWe assume that 2025 will be a rather difficult year with internal and external challenges,
Shokhin said at an annual regional members’ gathering in the central city of YekaterinburgThis exceeds — by a significant margin — all sanctions ever imposed on all other nations combined,
the Kremlin leader saidOf course, there are disagreements on various points, but there is a process, there is a dialogue, which in our understanding will help to overcome these disagreements,
Dmitriev told the briefingUS companies are ready to occupy the niches left by European companies that left the Russian Federation,
he was quoted as saying
If the Ukrainians were not able to receive intelligence from us, they would struggle to target, especially in-depth operational level targets such as command posts, logistics areas and things like that,
he told senators