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We each talked about the strengths of our respective nations, and the great benefit that we will someday have in working together,
Trump said in a social media post If Ukraine is not in Nato... we need an army as numerous as the Russians have today,
Mr Zelensky said in an interview with The Economist published yesterday And for all this, we need weapons and money. And we will ask the US for this,
Mr Zelensky said, describing that as his "Plan B". Putin is not preparing for peace - he continues to kill Ukrainians and destroy cities,
Mr Zelensky said on the Telegram messaging app We believe that America’s strength, together with Ukraine and all of our partners, is enough to push Russia to peace,
he later wrote on social media Interesting question. I think they have to make peace.”
Asked specifically about Ukraine being an equal member in a potential peace process, Trump responded People didn’t really know what President Putin’s thoughts were. But I think I can say with great confidence, he wants to see it ended also, so that’s good — and we’re going to work toward getting it ended and as fast as possible.”
Of his conversation with Putin, Trump said I think long before President Putin, they said there’s no way they’d allow that.”
Trump said Wednesday of Russia You [...] have to be wide-eyed to the fact that if you are ceding territory to an aggressor, that will be seen as rewarding the aggressor,
Penny Mordaunt, the former UK House of Commons leader, also told Times Radio Trump wants a Nobel Peace Prize but all he is doing is signalling weakness
Defence analyst and historian Paul Beaver also warned against repeating the appeasement policy, telling the Sun I fear history is repeating itself with potentially terrifying consequences
he said ahead of a Munich security conference where the peace talks are expected to be a topic If the US is promising Russia that Ukraine can never join NATO, if the US won’t allow Ukraine to join NATO, Putin will have obtained one of his major objectives of this war,
said Kristine Berzina, managing director of the German Marshall Fund’s Geostrategy North It’s quite clear that the United States is not going to war with Russia to defend Ukraine, and that has been true for 35 years or longer,
said Thomas Graham, a fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations President after president knew that transatlantic security benefited both the US and Europe,
former UK Defense Secretary Ben Wallace said in an interview In any negotiation, Europe must have a central role,
the EU’s foreign policy chief, Kaja Kallas, said I’m just here to try and get peace,
President Putin wants that peace now, and he didn’t want to have that peace with Biden.”
We want, like you, a sovereign and prosperous Ukraine. But we must start by recognising that returning to Ukraine’s pre-2014 borders is an unrealistic objective,
I don’t care so much about anything other than I want to stop having millions of people killed,
To be clear, as part of any security guarantee, there will not be US troops deployed to Ukraine,
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