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I don't see any way that a country in Russia's position could allow them, just in their position, could allow them to join NATO,
I thought his comments were good yesterday and probably good today
On the one hand I’m against negotiations because everyone understands that this bastard [Putin] will attack again in a couple of years, unless he dies,
I feel disappointed and angry. There is no certainty that this war will end for us, because Trump does not perceive us as an equal party in these negotiations,
said Oleksii, a 34-year-old working for an IT company The thing with Trump is that he’s totally unpredictable,
said one army officer who had recently returned from the frontline in Donbas but did not want to be named It feels like Ukraine is being screwed,
said Litovchenko, a personal trainer who was born in Kyiv and has stayed in the city throughout the three years of full-scale war Today he says one thing, tomorrow another, and we know that the most important thing for him is his ego. So maybe when he sees that everyone is saying he has been outplayed by Putin, he’ll get offended and change course again. We can at least hope,
We saw how he was during his first presidency … Putin’s doormat,
Europe believes all of a sudden that working on defence is a good thing… Between that realisation and the reality of building a European defense industry it’s going to take many years and even many decades,
he told the Financial Times To many Americans it has seemed that a prosperous Western Europe was not making a reasonably proportionate contribution to the common defense effort,
I don’t think any UN troops or anything like that have ever really helped anyone,
he told the Guardian this week One for all, all for one”
Her Estonian counterpart, Hanno Pevkur, cited the poet Alexandre Dumas Whether we decide to fall under the illusion that Mr. Trump and Mr. Putin are going to find a solution for all of us, and that would be a deadly trap, or we will, as Europe, embrace our own economic, financial and military capacity.”
Will the Government impress on President Trump at every possible opportunity that the reason why appeasement led to World War Two was that it left a vacuum in Europe?
We shouldn't take anything off the table before the negotiations have even started because it plays to Russia's court and it is what they want,
We see it in their assault tactics, on their increasingly weak combat readiness. I recently talked to POWs and they have little to no motivation left. So I think it is time for maximum pressure on them, not negotiations,
Because the Kremlin would not be stopped by any agreement they offer us. It will not stop until it swallows us whole. But I think we need time to recuperate,
Of course, we were busy fighting, but it is still sad to hear this kind of rhetoric from a key ally. Our army is still our strongest security guarantee. And I am sure no one wants such a strong asset to fall under Russia’s command,
Ukrainian soldier Oleh, fighting near Chasiv Yar in the Donetsk region, told POLITICO I was shocked by this. If the Americans don’t want to give us guarantees, they should return our nuclear weapons back,
As a refugee from Luhansk region, it is hard for me to hear this,
Volodymyr Pesnev said, while standing with his friends near a department store in Kyiv
