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We don't need a truce - we need peace: long-term, durable, with guarantees for the Russian Federation and its citizens.
Speaking at his annual press conference in December, he reiterated his long-standing position
The Kremlin has to be forced into peace.
In his nightly address, Zelensky reinforced Kyiv's positionI believe Putin wants peace in Ukraine.
Despite this, Trump has also displayed some optimism statingBased on the fact that Russia is absolutely 'pounding' Ukraine on the battlefield right now, I am strongly considering large-scale banking sanctions and tariffs on Russia until a ceasefire and final settlement agreement on peace is reached,
Trump posted on Truth Social
I think he [Putin] is doing what anybody else would do. I think he wants to get it stopped and settled. He is hitting them harder than he has been hitting them... He wants to get it ended, and I think Ukraine wants to get it ended, but I don't see it. It is crazy that they are taking tremendous punishment...The war would have never happened if I were the President..."
Trump further saidRussia is trying to hurt ordinary Ukrainians by shelling energy and gas production facilities, without abandoning its goal of leaving us without power and heating, and causing the greatest harm to ordinary citizens,
he added
A fire broke out at the scene of the impact. A nearby apartment building was also damaged,
he addedIt is thus entirely incompatible with the current stated U.S. policy and cannot be the basis or guidepost for negotiations that amount to anything other than capitulation to Russia’s pre-war demands,
it said
There were very, very, what I'll call cogent and substantive negotiations, framed in something that's called the Istanbul protocol agreement,
U.S. Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff told CNN last month
The U.S. hasn't asked Russia to make any concessions to end its invasion of Ukraine. And Putin says Russia isn't going to make any. Told by the mother of a dead soldier that Russia 'should go to the end [and] not make any concessions,' Putin said: ... We aren't planning to do that.'
Max Seddon, the Moscow bureau chief at the Financial Times, wrote on X
As Trump unleashes his maximum weakness campaign on Russia, Putin's position is as uncompromising as ever: 'We will not make concessions to anyone on Ukraine.'
Janis Kluge, economist at the German Institute for International and Security Affairs, wrote on XTerritorial concessions to what is now called Ukraine were made by the Soviet leadership during the formation of the USSR,
he saidWe are dealing with an attempt [by Ukrainian forces] to achieve a respite at any cost” and “to prevent the collapse of the front,
she continued
We must choose for ourselves a peace option that will suit us and that will ensure peace for our country in the long term,
Putin told a group of Russian women who have lost loved ones during the three-year war in UkraineThere are still people who want to go back to the time of Napoleon, they forget how it ended,
Putin said on Thursday, without mentioning Macron by nameAll the mistakes of our enemies and opponents began with this: in underestimating the character of the Russian people and representatives of Russian culture in general,
Putin addedIf everyone unites on this front - our side, the Americans, other countries that have influence - then there must be a result,
said Bohutska, 46, during a rally on Thursday calling for the return of Ukrainian prisoners of war and missingI've seen how it's done - I don't see a problem. What, are there not enough buses or planes to carry the guys?"
asked the 34-year-oldBecause it would be frightening if, for example, it comes time for negotiations and this (issue) takes a back seat,
she saidWe have said, and continue to say, that elections can only take place after a ceasefire and the signing of a peace agreement with security guarantees for Ukraine,
he said in a statement on Thursday