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(Russian president Vladimir Putin) is asking more and he is not asking only more about Ukraine. He's just putting new conditions on the table (...) there must be some kind of red lines on the timetable
he said as he arrived in Brussels to meet his Nato counterparts
People die every day. There is only one reason why this continues: Russia does not want a ceasefire, and we see it. The whole world sees it,
Volodymyr Zelensky saidHe (Dmitriev) was not only in the US – we are monitoring the movements of our adversaries,
Mr Zelensky said during the briefingThere were dead children lying there, crying parents, it was horrible,
Yulia, 47, told Reuters as she surveyed the damaged blinds, fixtures and furniture in her apartmentThe missile struck a residential area with a playground,
the military's General Staff said in a statement on TelegramI think the teams need about a month, no longer, and we will be fully ready with an understanding of this infrastructure,
he saidDmitriev has direct access to Putin; in the Russian system, this is the most important thing a negotiator can have,
Ignatov said
His apparent closeness to Putin makes him more than just a messenger,
said Pavel Baev, a research professor at the Peace Research Institute Oslo, a think tankWithout doubt, we note a positive dynamic in our relations,
he told journalists in WashingtonAn 88-year-old man died in hospital ... As of this moment, five people are dead and 32 are wounded."
Kharkiv Governor Oleg Synegubov wrote on social media
Our judgment is that Putin continues to obfuscate, continues to drag his feet,
British Foreign Secretary David Lammy told reporters at NATO headquarters, standing alongside his French counterpart Jean-Noel Barrot in a symbolic show of unity
Russia has been flip-flopping, continuing its strikes on energy infrastructure, continuing its war crimes,
Barrot said
Now, I think it is obvious who wants peace and who wants war,
Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha said at a NATO meeting in Brussels, referring to the Kharkiv strikeRussia in the past year has seized the upper hand in … Ukraine and is on a path to accrue greater leverage to press Kyiv and its Western backers to negotiate an end to the war that grants Moscow concessions it seeks,
the report saidThe geography and brutality of Russian strikes, not just occasionally, but literally every day and night, show that Putin couldn’t care less about diplomacy,
Zelenskyy said in his evening address on Sunday
We have … increased the duration [of training] to 1.5 months, introduced a mandatory adaptive period for newcomers to combat brigades, and this is yielding positive results,
he wrote on social media on MondayApril 20 would be a good time for a full ceasefire without any conditions … because a deadline is needed, because it is Easter and because President Donald Trump will have been in office for three months,
Stubb later told reportersThere have been no signals yet.”
Asked whether Europe was willing to enter a dialogue with Putin, Kremlin spokesman Peskov said on ThursdayI don’t know. I don’t think so. I think he wants to make a deal.”
Asked if he thought Putin was stalling, he saidThe unit also involves men, but the role of pilots delivering the final blow will be performed exclusively by women,
it said