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Everybody knows...and people in the administration know you don't say before your first meeting what you will agree to and what you won't agree to,
For the Senate, there is a strong majority, supermajority, in favor of supporting Ukraine, seeing this through and making sure that this does not come off as a win for Putin and embolden him further."
Senator Sheldon Whitehouse, a Rhode Island Democrat, said at the Munich Security Conference on Friday One way or another, of course, Ukraine will participate in the negotiations, ... There will be a bilateral Russian-American track of this dialogue, and a track that will be related to Ukraine's involvement."
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told Russian state-controlled TV on Thursday, per Reuters ... adding, We will only end this devastating war and establish a durable peace by coupling allied strength with a realistic assessment of the battlefield."
Hegseth said on Wednesday during a press conference at the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) headquarters in Brussels The Russian Federation does not want to end the war and continues to escalate global tensions. That is why U.S. military support is crucial for Ukraine. Only in this way can we achieve a just and lasting peace."
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky wrote on X, formerly Twitter, on Friday I'm not going to stand at this podium and declare what President Trump will do or won't do, what will be in or what will be out, what concessions will be made or what concessions are not made,
the defense secretary added Ukraine is entitled to the promises that the world made to it,
We want, like you, a sovereign and prosperous Ukraine, but we must start by recognizing that returning to Ukraine’s pre-2014 borders is an
We would have Ukraine, and we have Russia, and we'll have other people involved, a lot of people,
I stand by the comments that I made on that first day in the Ukraine Contact Group — and that's for all the press out there, who it's difficult for them to understand that,
What they're saying ... Hegseth told reporters Friday Hegseth is going to be a great defense secretary, although he wasn’t my choice for the job,
the Mississippi Republican told POLITICO’s Jonathan Martin on the sidelines of the Munich Security Conference I prefer we didn’t give away negotiating positions before we actually get started talking about the end of the Russia-Ukraine war,
I don’t know who wrote the speech — it is the kind of thing Tucker Carlson could have written, and Carlson is a fool,
Wicker said, referring to the pro-Putin broadcaster There are good guys and bad guys in this war, and the Russians are the bad guys,
As a military guy, you want to have your leadership embody the culture that they're leading,
Bacon told WOWT-TV in Omaha He's the commander in chief and they're gonna follow the orders of the civilian leadership proposal,
Bacon said, according to The Hill Chasing this illusionary goal will only prolong the war and cause more suffering,
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