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The fact that a significant part of Ukraine wants to become Russia, and has already, is a fact,
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said, referring to Moscow's 2022 annexation of four Ukrainian regions after referendums widely criticized internationally as fraudulent
It is some kind of senile insanity,
Kyiv resident Daniil told AFPHe can think anything and say anything, but Ukraine will never be Russia."
A Ukrainian soldier on a street in central Kyiv, who only gave the name Mykola, said of TrumpWe were treated very nicely by Russia,
Trump told reporters of Fogel's releaseWe will swap one territory for another,
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There are voices which say that Europe could offer security guarantees without the Americans, and I always say no,
Zelensky told the Guardian newspaper in an interview published on the UK newspaper's website on TuesdayValuable natural resources where we can offer our partners possibilities that didn't exist before to invest in them. For us it will create jobs, for American companies it will create profits,
he addedI don't know, we will see. But all our territories are important, there is no priority,
he saidSecurity guarantees without America are not real security guarantees,
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In the Kursk region, the neo-Nazis operating there … [control] an area of approximately two meters and a depth of one and a half meters,
said Maria Zakharova, a Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson, in a Telegram post on Tuesday
History shows that there are many things that you just don’t know, what happened behind the scenes, what negotiations there were … it’s hard to characterise it all today because we don’t know everything. Later we will know, we will know everything,
Zelenskyy said
We are hoping that our teams will fix a date and a plan of meetings in the US; as soon as it is agreed, we are ready, I am ready,
he said
Those who are helping us to save Ukraine will [have the chance to] renovate it, with their businesses together with Ukrainian businesses. All these things we are ready to speak about in detail,
he said
We aren’t going to complain that some programmes have been frozen, because the most important thing for us is the military aid and that has been preserved, for which I’m grateful … If the American side has the possibility and desire to continue its humanitarian mission, we are fully for it, and if it doesn’t, then we will find our own way out of this situation
On the USAid freeze, Zelenskyy saidI will be open with you, I don’t think that UN troops or anything similar has ever really helped anyone in history. Today we can’t really support this idea. We are for a [peacekeeping] contingent if it is part of a security guarantee, and I would underline again that without America this is impossible,
he addedThey may make a deal, they may not make a deal, they may be Russian some day, they may not be Russian some day, but we’re gonna have all this money in there and I said I want it back,
said TrumpOnly Patriot can defend us against all kinds of missiles, only Patriots. There are other [European] systems … but they cannot provide full protection … So even from this small example you can see that without America, security guarantees cannot be complete,
he saidClearly he doesn’t really want everyone to know the details, and that’s his personal decision,
he saidWhen it comes to Emmanuel’s idea, if it’s part [of a security guarantee] then yes, if there will be 100-150,000 European troops, then yes. But even then we wouldn’t be at the same level of troops as the Russian army that is opposing us,
he saidThey may make a deal, they may not make a deal. They may be Russian someday, or they may not be Russian someday,
he said