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Fundamentally, if you want peace, does a decision to suspend arms to Ukraine reinforce peace or does it make it more distant? It makes it more distant because it only strengthens the hand of the aggressor on the ground, which is Russia.”
Benjamin Haddad, France’s junior minister for Europe, also criticized the move, stating
My Republican colleagues who have called Putin a war criminal and promised their continued support to Ukraine must join me in demanding President Trump immediately lift this disastrous and unlawful freeze,
said Representative Gregory Meeks, the top Democrat on the House Foreign Affairs CommitteeThe President has been clear that he is focused on peace. We need our partners to be committed to that goal as well,
a White House official told AFP on condition of anonymityThe aid freeze looks really bad. It looks like he is pushing Kyiv towards capitulation,
the chair of Ukraine’s Parliamentary Foreign Affairs Committee told Reuters
It was the lack of security guarantees for Ukraine 11 years ago that allowed Russia to start with the occupation of Crimea and the war in Donbas, then the lack of security guarantees allowed Russia to launch a full-scale invasion,
Zelensky said in a video statement
The only way it ends is if Vladimir Putin comes to a negotiating table. And right now President Trump is the only person on Earth who has any chance whatsoever of bringing him to a table to see what it is he would be willing to end the war on,
said Rubio
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The only thing that matters is getting Putin to negotiate,
a testy Rubio told host George Stephanopoulos Sunday on ABC’s This Week