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This is a huge strategic mistake for the United States because our European allies are going to come together, they are going to help Ukraine either win or at least get to a much better situation, and Europe will have done it without us and despite us and we will have lost great influence and great credibility,
Recent estimates suggest that only 20 percent of total military hardware supplied to Ukrainian forces is now from the US,
The European offer of ‘boots on the ground’ after a deal has helped reassure Ukraine. But the debate has now moved on. And what will count most of all is how far the UK and Europe are prepared to help Ukraine in defiance of the US,
said Malcolm Chalmers, deputy director-general of the Royal United Services Institute, a think tank in London Everything that was not literally on Ukrainian soil at the time the freeze was announced was not delivered,
The Russia-led bloc will likely see the United States abandoning Ukraine as an indicator that the United States will abandon its other allies and will seek to test the limits of US commitment around the world,
the ISW said, referring to Iran and North Korea What we need to hear from President Zelenskyy is that he has regret for what happened, he’s ready to sign this minerals deal and that he’s ready to engage in peace talks,
said Trump’s national security advisor, Mike Waltz Hearing Trump say Ukrainians don’t want peace is unfair,
I have decided to start strategic discussions on the defence of the entire continent with our nuclear weapons. The decision will depend on the heads and commanders-in-chief of European countries,
Macron said in a televised message The events of the last week have definitely produced an effect here in Oslo and in other countries,
Inna Sovsun, a Ukrainian member of parliament with knowledge of security and defence matters, told Al Jazeera The Kyiv regime and Zelensky do not want peace. They want the war to continue.”
Even as its army claimed the village of Privolnoye in Donetsk on Wednesday, Peskov told reporters The new [US] administration is rapidly changing all foreign policy configurations. This largely coincides with our vision.”
Peskov told an interviewer on the Rossiya-1 news network Some first draft provisions of such potential peace plans are appearing,” but not “a coherent institutionalised peace plan”.
Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said There are no talks on the situation in Ukraine as yet.”
Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesperson Maria Zakharova confirmed on Wednesday We all understood that it was not Donald Trump who severed relations, but Joe Biden,
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov told an interviewer on Sunday, during which he rejected the idea of European peacekeepers They claim to be training thousands of peacekeepers and providing them with air support, which is an audacious stance,
he said of the United Kingdom and France You went to Pennsylvania in October and campaigned for the opposition,
said Vance, referring to Zelenskyy’s appearance with then-President Joe Biden on the campaign trail Those willing will intensify planning now with real urgency,
Starmer said after the summit The [Ukrainian] president knows that, look, if you want real security guarantees, if you want to ensure that [Russian president] Vladimir Putin does not invade Ukraine again, the very best security guarantee is to give Americans economic upside in the future of Ukraine. That is a much better security guarantee than 20,000 troops from some random country that hasn’t fought a war in 30 or 40 years.”
Asked about that on a right-wing US network, Vance said Hopefully, we won’t have to send much [military assistance] because I’m looking forward to getting it done quickly,
Trump told a reporter during his White House conference with Zelenskyy There is no longer any pretence that the administration clearly sides with Russia,
said retired US general Ben Hodges, who commanded US forces in Europe from 2014 to 2018.
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