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We want, like you, a sovereign and prosperous Ukraine. But we must start by recognising that returning to Ukraine’s pre-2014 borders is an unrealistic objective,
To be clear, as part of any security guarantee, there will not be US troops deployed to Ukraine,
President Putin wants that peace now, and he didn’t want to have that peace with Biden.”
I don’t care so much about anything other than I want to stop having millions of people killed,
The US is prioritising deterring war with China in the Pacific, recognising the reality of scarcity and making the resourcing tradeoffs to ensure deterrence does not fail,
I had a meaningful conversation with @POTUS. We... talked about opportunities to achieve peace, discussed our readiness to work together ...and Ukraine's technological capabilities... including drones and other advanced industries,
If you’re a murderer, a criminal, a rapist, break into people’s homes in the middle of the night with a gun while the kids are sleeping, and you’re undocumented, you shouldn’t be here, right
And we also need better border security,
No one wants peace more than Ukraine,
We need to expunge this threat, and I think they need to come forward and be constructive or it’s going to be a real, real problem,
So the president looks forward and says ‘this is how it should be, we should end the war, there should be territorial sovereignty on both sides,
Boehler explained on Fox News’s The Story with Martha MacCallum I think we're on the way to getting peace. I think President Putin wants peace, President Zelenskyy wants peace, and I want peace. I just want to see people stop getting killed,
He wants it to end. He doesn't want to end it and then go back to fighting six months later,
Trump told reporters in the Oval Office President Putin ... agreed with Trump that a long-term settlement could be reached through peace negotiations,
Putin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said in his readout of the call, which he said lasted almost one-and-a-half hours Not that I'm aware of. That doesn't mean they don't exist,
Leavitt told reporters at a press briefing For Putin that's a coup if Trump would accept
an invitation to visit Moscow ... Herbst said It seems very standard for how Trump operates,
said Andrew Weiss, the vice president for studies at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace Everyone was expecting that if Trump were elected there would be negotiations over Ukraine,
said Michael David-Fox, an expert on Russia at Georgetown University I want to thank President Putin for his time and effort with respect to this call, and for the release, yesterday, of Marc Fogel, a wonderful man that I personally greeted last night at the White House,
Trump added of the release in his Truth Social post earlier Wednesday I believe this nation views Putin and Russia as a great competitor in the region, at times an adversary,
Leavitt said when asked how President Donald Trump views Russia and Putin
