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Look, the fact is: Russia invaded Ukraine. That’s just the fact here. Why is the president saying otherwise? My feeling is it is part of his plan. I don’t know what he intends to do,
York said on Fox News's Special Report With Bret Baier Perhaps [Putin] really thinks that a pro-Russian candidate may win in Ukraine to deliver the nation to the Kremlin on a platter,
It’s disgusting to see how they are getting ready to carve up Ukraine the way Stalin and Hitler carved up Poland in 1939,
said Vyacheslav, referring to the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, a nonaggression treaty signed by Russia and Germany that divided Poland between the two nations The election is about extra expenses and will distract Ukraine from our biggest problem – the war,
Russians are flexible. In their words, it’s all about flattery and compliments for Trump, but in their practice, when it comes to real talks, they play cat and mouse with Americans,
How am I going to leave my children, and how is my sick mom going to travel to Vienna?”
Zelenskyy also irks him emotionally, and any other Ukrainian official ready to submit Ukraine to Putin on his own accord would suit Trump way more,
The Trump administration] talk about the need to establish peace as soon as possible and do it through negotiations,
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told journalists For now, the situation is they (the US) won't sign it.
A second diplomatic source who also requested anonymity said These are classic Russian talking points
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 To watch a Republican administration, after all he did to help us win the Cold War, now not only sort of supporting Putin’s position at the table but just sort of gushing over him in this bromance that they have.”
I can’t overstate how different this is in the post-World War II America and I think Ronald Reagan must be rolling over in his grave right now,
said Slotkin, who was part of a bipartisan delegation that recently met with Zelenskyy in Munich They’re looking and they’re basically saying, ‘America just doesn’t have the willpower to actually defend when a democracy is invaded, that’s important for us to know because maybe we’re interested in taking over a territory like Taiwan,
Recent developments and this different view of things from the United States now oblige us not only to face the truth, but to move at a very high speed and implement decisions that we have been discussing for long,
he said late on Wednesday We are standing strong on our own two feet. I am counting on Ukrainian unity, our courage ... on the unity of Europe and the pragmatism of America,
Zelenskiy told Ukrainians in his video address late on Wednesday For now, we have one task: to stand up and preserve our state."
At an event hosted by Ukrainian media outlet NV, he said Because America needs success just as much as we do,
The biggest responsibility today lies with the Ukrainian authorities. Zelenskiy must immediately stop putting pressure on the opposition and political repression against those he does not like."
The transatlantic relations are over,
Roth added, as he emphasized