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The prime minister updated the president on his coalition of the willing call ... He reiterated that all must work together to put Ukraine in the strongest possible position to secure a just and lasting peace,
Putin's war is directed not only against Ukraine, but also against Europe—against our security and our freedom,
he said in the Bundestag today Russia sees big prospects to work with the United States, including in the space sector, and expects to hold talks with Elon Musk soon about flying to Mars,
The US has been consistently offering in some form preemptive concessions that have been weakening the American and Ukrainian negotiating position,
So there is a certain understanding indeed. But there are many issues [on the agenda],
I look very much forward to the call with President Putin,
the US president wrote on his Truth Social platform late on Monday night They’re surrounded by Russian soldiers, and I believe if it wasn’t for me, they wouldn’t be here any longer. I was able to get them [Russia] not to do anything at the moment,
Trump told journalists at the Kennedy Center in Washington The leaders will speak for as long as they deem necessary,
It's been a week since the moment of the (ceasefire) proposal,
Putin aide Yuri Ushakov told the Kommersant newspaper It is time for Russia to show whether it really wants peace,
Ukraine's Foreign Minister Andriy Sybiga said And what do we see? The biggest Ukrainian drone attack on Russian territory in history,
he said, referring to an attack on the Moscow region last week A shell hit. Everything was blown apart in a second. No house, no garage, no barn,
the 62-year-old told AFP as she was taken to safety by volunteers When I went to Wisconsin to knock doors last month, folks told me they don’t want billionaires like Elon Musk running our federal government and they certainly don’t want him buying our elections,
DNC Chair Ken Martin said in a statement We have tremendous things to report tomorrow, speaking with President Putin of Russia to save some soldiers who are in deep trouble. They’re captured,
Trump told reporters yesterday afternoon We are not the obstacle to achieving peace ... we really expect from Russian side unconditional yes for ceasefire,
Sybiha said during a conference in New Delhi Our approach: now is a time for diplomacy, for a strong diplomacy,
I won't get ahead of those negotiations (between Trump and Putin) but I can say we are on the 10th yard line of peace. We've never been closer to a peace deal than we are in this moment and the president is determined to get one done."
White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt told reporters on Monday With regard to losing territory, the only interesting question at this point in time is how much territory Ukraine is going to lose because there's no way Ukraine can take back the territory that it's lost,
said Mearsheimer, the R. Wendell Harrison Distinguished Service Professor in the Political Science Department at the University of Chicago Units of the Dnepr military group, as a result of active and decisive actions, liberated the village of Stepovoye in the Zaporizhzhia region."
The Russian Defense Ministry on Telegram Russian forces recently advanced in western Zaporizhzhia Oblast."
The Institute for the Study of War (ISW