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And while Putin made a promise for a ceasefire against energy infrastructure, he broke it just hours later,
Mr Browder added suggesting it showed Putin's comtempt for Trump
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Right now, you have a lot of guns pointing at each other and a ceasefire without going a little bit further would have been tough."
The President told IngrahamEurope must be at the negotiating table, and everything that concerns European security must be decided together with Europe.”
He saidAt the moment, peace seems further away as a result of Russia’s additional demands,
Giles said
There is a lot we don’t know because there’s a difference between what the White House and Kremlin have reported from this call,
Keir Giles, a senior consulting fellow at the London-based Chatham House think tank, told Al JazeeraThe blood and treasure that both Ukraine and Russia have been spending in this war would be better spent on the needs of their people,
the statement readsThe United States should be the main controlling entity,
he said
Putin’s words are very much at odds with reality,
he saidIt was striking how little concession Trump is asking from the Russians, although they invaded their neighbor,
Colbourn said
This call brought to light how difficult of an interlocutor Russia is going to be and the general unwillingness of Russia to talk about making real progress in stopping this war,
said Kristine Berzina, a managing director at the German Marshall Fund think tankMany elements of a Contract for Peace were discussed, including the fact that thousands of soldiers are being killed, and both President Putin and President Zelenskyy would like to see it end,
he wrote, using an alternate spelling for the Ukrainian leader
Today, Putin de facto rejected the proposal for a complete ceasefire. It would be right for the world to reject in response any attempts by Putin to drag out the war,
Zelenskyy said in a post on the Telegram messaging appWe had a great call. It lasted almost two hours,
Trump said on Fox News Channel's "The Ingraham Angle" showThis is, of course, a great success for Putin, who is managing to remove bilateral relations from direct dependence on the Ukrainian conflict,
political analyst Tatiana Stanovaya said
He's said he's interested (in the ceasefire) but he's set a series of clearly unacceptable conditions for it. It's a 'no' by any other name,
Gould-Davies said in a phone interviewUp until recently, we really didn't have consensus around these two aspects - the energy and infrastructure ceasefire and the Black Sea moratorium on firing - and today we got to that place, and I think it's a relatively short distance to a full ceasefire from there,
Trump envoy Steve Witkoff told Fox News "Hannity" programPutin is trying to put pressure on Trump and will continue the war. The Ukrainians will retreat and slowly lose territory and people."
A Russian source close to the Kremlin told ReutersIt leaves Europe having to mobilise very quickly the resources for its own defence and hoping it can somehow limit the decoupling that's under way,
he saidIt is entirely in Putin's interests to continue the war and lead America by the nose,
he saidSecondly, this is, of course, not at all what Trump was talking about, and what he demanded, and what the Ukrainians agreed to, that is, a (complete) ceasefire. This is a ceasefire on selective targets. This is not what was asked for,
he said