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These are human beings that are just being slaughtered on this battlefield by the millions. They've already died, and the cities — the cities are like demolition sites,
he said in an interview that aired Thursday on "Hannity."
Putin shouldn't have done it, too. I mean, I'm not blaming only what — Putin shouldn't have done it. He shouldn't have done it, and it has to stop,
Trump saidZelenskyy was fighting a much bigger entity — much bigger, much more powerful. He shouldn't have done that because we could have made a deal and it would have been a deal that would have been — it would have been a nothing deal,
Trump saidWe'd like to see denuclearisation ... and I will tell you President Putin really liked the idea of cutting way back on nuclear. And I think the rest of the world, we would have gotten them to follow, and China would have come along too,
Trump said
Our effort to reach a peace deal between Russia and Ukraine are now hopefully underway. It is so important to get that done. Millions of soldiers are getting killed. Millions of Russians and millions of Ukrainians. It has to end,
What they're saying ... Trump said in his video address to Davos attendees
He liked the idea of cutting down... Putin wanted to do it. China would have joined. It would have been an unbelievable thing for the planet,
Trump saidWe're going to be talking with President Putin very soon, and we'll see what, how it all happens. We're going to look at it.”
He added
Well, we'll look into that. We're talking to Zelensky,
he repliedI’m not looking to hurt Russia,
he postedI think Russia's going to be in big trouble,
the 78-year-old addedI really would like to be able to meet with President Putin soon to get that war ended, and that's not from the standpoint of economy or anything else. It's from the standpoint of millions of lives are being wasted."
In a highly anticipated address via videolink to the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Trump said
We do really welcome such strong messages from President Trump and we believe that he will be the winner. And we believe that we have an additional chance to get new dynamic in diplomatic efforts to end this war.”
In remarks at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Ukraine’s top diplomat said
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We have to change the trajectory of the war,
Mr Rutte saidIf Ukraine loses then to restore the deterrence of the rest of Nato again, it will be a much, much higher price than what we are contemplating at this moment in terms of ramping up our spending and ramping up our industrial production,
Mr Rutte saidI flew off the couch to get dressed, and, running to the cabinet, I was covered in debris, after which I climbed out and heard my wife screaming.”
Speaking to Reuters as he searched the gutted remains of his apartment, a 35-year-old named Serhiy described the attack, sayingThese can be Russia’s fintech sector, companies involved in the development of e-ruble, central bank digital currency used as an alternative to the SWIFT international payment system Russia is already cut off from, and cryptocurrency payment systems,
he said
But Russia already prevented from selling anything in U.S. So this threat of 'Taxes, Tariffs, and Sanctions' seems empty. If Trump wants to put pressure on Putin, he needs to ramp up support for Ukraine. Otherwise it's just weak rhetoric from Trump which Putin will ignore."
In a post on X, formerly known as Twitter, Bill Kristol, the director of Defending Democracy Together, wrote
We can do it the easy way, or the hard way - and the easy way is always better."
The strongly worded message ended with Trump saying
If we don't make a 'deal,' and soon, I have no other choice but to put high levels of Taxes, Tariffs, and Sanctions on anything being sold by Russia to the United States, and various other participating countries,
Trump posted on his Truth Social platform
Neither in 100 days, nor in 180 days will [Donald] Trump solve and regulate the conflict in Ukraine
Former deputy defence minister Col-Gen Andrei Kartapolov, now a hardline Russian MP, told another propaganda show