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Poroshenko’s people and Yulia, they’re all talking to Trump World, positioning themselves as people who would be easier to work with. And people who would consent to many of the things that Zelenskyy is not agreeing to,
Nonetheless ... a top Republican foreign policy expert told POLITICO, asking that his name be withheld so he could speak freely
Our narrative is not to push for elections but to secure free and fair competitive post-war elections in our country.”
The press office respondedYou would have to prevent me from participating in the elections,
he said, before suggesting, as he has previously,The elites are feeling very disoriented and shocked because they understand very clearly that without United States support, Ukraine will be defeated,
Bortnik addedThey’re trying to establish informal connections or use the connections they have with the Republican Party or Trump’s entourage and to indicate their willingness to work with Washington,
he told POLITICOWe are seeing some political factions starting to move,
said Ruslan Bortnik, director of the Ukrainian Institute of PoliticsI believe Trump doesn’t care about whether Ukraine has elections or not. It’s Putin’s narrative, Putin’s goal. Trump is being used by Putin to impose elections on Ukraine with only one purpose, to undermine us from within. He wants to remove Zelenskyy because he is a symbol of our resistance. Putin understands that an election campaign during times of war will be destructive for our unity and for our stability,
he said
The first steps on the path to a just and lasting peace are incredibly important. We want to move forward speedily, in cooperation with the United States and all of Europe,
Zelensky said on social media platform X
On the military front and the intelligence front, the pause that allowed that to happen will go away, and I think we’ll work shoulder to shoulder with Ukraine as we have,
Ratcliffe said
We have taken a step back and are pausing and reviewing all aspects of this relationship,
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This is a once-in-a-generation moment for the security of Europe,
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer said, calling for a “coalition of the willing.”
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Then, on February 18, 2020, Russians launched one of the largest assaults of the war. This is the Kremlin’s pattern: deception, false promises, and escalation,
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Europe knows one thing: the deal, if it happens, is not simply about carving up Ukraine or securing a quick ceasefire … it is about a lasting and secure peace agreement, about existential security issues for all of Europe,
Wolfgang Ischinger, a former German ambassador to Washington, wrote in Foreign AffairsSecurity is so easy, that’s about 2% of the problem,
he said during Friday’s Oval Office showdownRussia, as a concerned state and permanent member of the UN Security Council, would have to agree to a deployment,
Major and Kleemann wrote in a paper, yet to be published and shared with CNNIt should not be that hard a deal to make,
Trump said Monday, hours before he announced a pause in shipments of US military aid to UkraineAt best, a highly unstable situation would obtain, where a renewal of hostilities would be easily possible or even likely,
Marc Weller, a professor of international law at the Cambridge Initiative for Peace Settlements, saidUkraine should adopt a neutral, nonaligned status, be nuclear-free, and undergo demilitarization and denazification,
Putin told an audience last summerI don’t think anybody’s going to play around if we’re there with a lot of workers,
he saidThey won't go to fight today, they won't go to fight on the front line, but they would be there once a peace deal is signed, to guarantee it is fully respected,
he said