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The deal will be signed,
Bessent said in an interview on Fox News on Sunday
The war didn't need to happen. It was provoked. It doesn't necessarily mean it was provoked by the Russians. There were all kinds of conversations back then about Ukraine joining NATO. That didn't need to happen. It basically became a threat to the Russians,
Witkoff told CNN on SundayI know we had 100 [billion dollars from the US – ed.], and I’m not going to acknowledge US$500 [billion of debt], no matter what anyone says."
Quote from Zelenskyy
I'm not going to sign something that ten generations of Ukrainians will be paying for."
Quote from ZelenskyyThere are no American obligations in the agreement regarding guarantees or investments, everything about them is very vague, and they want to extract $500 billion from us,
the Ukrainian source told AFP of the proposed deal
In the form in which the draft is now, the president is not ready to accept, we are still trying to make changes and add constructiveness,
a Ukrainian source close to the matter told AFP Saturday
It was not in our interests today... not in the interests of sovereign Ukraine'
Zelensky refused to sign the deal as offered last week, telling reporters over the weekend
We're signing an agreement, hopefully in the next fairly short period of time.
Trump told reporters in the Oval Office on Friday eveningToday, the teams of Ukraine and the United States are working on a draft agreement between our governments,
Zelenskiy said in his nightly video address
Here's the bottom line, President Zelenskiy is going to sign that deal, and you will see that in the very short term,
Waltz told the Conservative Political Action Conference on the outskirts of WashingtonThe main conclusion is that Europe must and can do considerably more so that peace can realistically be achieved,
he said