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Putin wants Trump to believe that Putin is interested in a deal,
commented Anton Barbashin, a political scientist and editor-in-chief of the analysis website Riddle Russia Russia is aiming for a ceasefire that would lead directly to peace talks,
The US may well agree to the demand for an arms embargo, because Trump doesn't want to spend any more American money on Ukraine,
the Moscow political scientist Sergei Markov wrote on his Telegram channel Trump has few options to counter either a Russian rejection or protracted feigned compliance. The most effective method will be the carrot rather than the stick: the temptation of a major deal."
Alexander Baunov of the Carnegie Russia Eurasia Center in Berlin has commented Despite everything we're hearing from Washington, Ukraine does actually still hold a lot of trump cards,
the security expert Dmitri Alperovitch told DW He rejected this proposal for an unconditional ceasefire, he wants conditional, he wants a ceasefire on his terms.”
Appearing on BBC Radio 4’s Today programme, he said If Russia finally comes to the table, then we must be ready to monitor a ceasefire to ensure it is a serious, and enduring peace,
Mr Starmer is set to tell leaders, in remarks released by his office ahead of the meeting So, indeed, there is a lot that needs to be done, but, nevertheless, the president expressed solidarity with Mr. Trump's position,
We want to trust America and its President. Ukraine is ready to act quickly and constructively. And we have warned that the only side that will try to sabotage everything will not be us,
Zelensky said in a series of posts on social media platform X on Friday I think there is reason to be cautiously optimistic. But by the same token, we continue to recognise this is a difficult and complex situation,
he told reporters at a G7 meeting in Canada Putin is holding the ceasefire proposal hostage and is attempting to extract preemptive concessions ahead of formal negotiations to end the war,
We've been discussing with Ukraine land and pieces of land that would be kept and lost, and all of the other elements of a final agreement,
There is no threat of our units being encircled,
Ukraine's General Staff posted on social media As for the situation on the ground… it is changing rapidly,
He (Putin) put out a very promising statement but it wasn't complete,
They have very serious discussions going on right now with President Putin and others, and hopefully they all want to end this nightmare,
We’d like to see a ceasefire from Russia,
In foreign policy, it’s not about trusting, it’s about actions, it’s about things that you do,
We've had some very good calls today with Russia, and with Ukraine, they've agreed to a ceasefire if we can get it with Russia. And it's not easy. It's a tough one."
I think we have it, I think we have it, but this could lead to World War III, very easily, could very easily lead to World War III. But I think we're in pretty good shape, a lot better than where we were before we got involved. That was heading into World War III territory, that would've been a war like no other because of nuclear weapons, and other types of weapons that you don't even wanna know about.
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