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This is the war in Ukraine, against us, and it's our human losses."
After the president's post on Truth Social yesterday, I need to know—who does he think is more responsible for the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Putin or Zelensky?"
I will never accept any decisions between the United States and Russia about Ukraine, never."
Zelensky told NBC News' Kristen Welker on Meet the Press last week So many people in Washington that were just demanding, pounding the table for a ceasefire in Gaza are suddenly aghast that the president would demand one and both sides come to the table when it comes to Ukraine—a war that has been arguably far greater in scope and scale and far more dangerous in terms of global escalation to U.S. security,
Rather than enter into some constructive conversations about what that deal should be going forward, we got a lot of rhetoric in the media that was incredibly unfortunate,
We have a situation where we haven't had elections in Ukraine, where we have martial law, essentially martial law in Ukraine, where the leader in Ukraine, I hate to say it, but he's down at 4 percent approval rating, and where a country has been blown to smithereens."
President Donald Trump said at a press conference on Tuesday There needs to be a deep appreciation for what the American people, what the American taxpayer, what President Trump did in his first term and what we've done since. So some of the rhetoric coming out of Kyiv, frankly, and insults to President Trump were unacceptable."
We have seen this disinformation, we understand that it is coming from Russia ... [Trump] lives in this disinformation space."
Zelensky, referring to Trump's comments, told reporters Blaming Ukraine for starting the war is some kind of absurdity. As Ukrainians, we cannot understand this,
soldier Ivan Banias told Agence France-Presse (AFP) on the freezing streets of Kyiv I think the Russians want to see the war end... But I think they have the cards a little bit, because they've taken a lot of territory, so they have the cards,
Trump told reporters late Wednesday A Dictator without Elections, Zelenskyy better move fast or he is not going to have a Country left,
Trump wrote on his Truth Social platform I believe that the United States helped [Vladimir] Putin to break out of years of isolation,
he added, in some of his sharpest criticism yet of the new US administration Together with America and Europe, peace can be more reliable, and this is our goal,
I have no doubt it would not have happened under President Trump,
His goal is to bring this war to an end, period,
Waltz said of Trump, when asked by reporters at a White House press briefing to say which nation was responsible for starting the war Strong Ukraine-U.S. relations benefit the entire world,
The better strategy than beating up Ukraine is making clear to Mr. Putin the arms and pressure he’ll face if the Russian doesn’t wind down the war to accept a durable peace,
We realize that the ruthless men who rule much of the world can’t be ignored. But usually those men aren’t rewarded with a visit to the U.S., as Mr. Trump hinted last week, before they’ve made any compromises,
Any peace Mr. Putin strikes has to be made with all of his legacy of destruction in mind,
Last week Mr. Trump said Ukraine can’t join NATO and must give up much of its territory to Russia—concessions to Mr. Putin with nothing in return,
