Quotes
Well, we're going to see."
Asked whether Ukraine should consider ceding territory to Russia as part of a settlement, Trump remained non-committal, saying
We are ready and willing to provide security guarantees, which could perhaps include troops, but they would be there to maintain peace,
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You can’t be weak in the face of President Putin. It’s not you, it’s not your trademark, it’s not in your interest,
Macron said
It looks like we’re getting very close,
Trump told reporters at the start of his bilateral meeting with MacronYeah, he will accept it,
Trump saidWe have necessity to have guarantees for solid peace,
Macron said at the start of the meetingThe only conclusion you can draw is that 80 years of policy in standing up against aggressors has just been blown up without any sort of discussion or reflection,
said Ian Kelly, a U.S. ambassador to Georgia during the Obama and first Trump administration and now a professor at Northwestern UniversityEurope is going to make sure that nothing happens. I don’t think that is going to be much of a problem, once we settle, there’s going to be no more war in Ukraine,
he said
He will accept that. I have asked him that question,
Trump said of Putin, when asked directly about the deployment of European troopsYou continue to inspire me and tens of millions of my fellow citizens back home in Canada."
He said
We have sovereign countries in Europe who take decisions on their own militaries,
she explained
It won't be a deal that will show Trump as a great winner and great dealmaker. He will be with this huge mess and I hope he will realise it before entering into anything like that."
She continuedTo increase defence spending to 3% or 4% of GDP, it kind of sounds very radical and politically difficult for many European countries today,
she saidIt looks like blackmail. Ukraine has to keep in mind that once you give in to blackmail, it never ends,
they saidThe situation with artillery supplies was critical, but the front didn’t collapse and the Russians scored no strategic successes,
Mikhailov said
Europe can produce large supplies of ammunition, or purchase them from other countries, including the US, a scenario the Trump administration has discussed. They could also buy ammunition, for example, for HIMARS and Patriot systems in the same way or set up production in the EU,
Mikhailov continuedThink of it, a modestly successful comedian, Volodymyr Zelensky, talked the United States of America into spending $350 Billion Dollars, to go into a War that couldn’t be won, that never had to start, but a War that he, without the U.S. and “TRUMP,” will never be able to settle, ... Zelensky better move fast or he is not going to have a country left
Trump wrote last week, before warning
The old days of America supporting Europe are over
Zelensky said in a message to his European counterparts as much as to his own peopleThree years of absolute heroism by our people. Eternal gratitude to the fallen heroes.”
Zelenskyy wrote in his anniversary address
The war is against Ukraine. So Ukraine has to be at the negotiating table,
Zelenskyy told the visiting leaders, ... saying Europe