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The only ones who are saying it was Ukraine who is to blame are the Russians,
she told Bloomberg in an interview in Cape Town, South Africa
Russia is the aggressor, there’s no question about that,
Senate Majority Leader John Thune told reporters
We haven’t seen each other for a long time,
Putin told reportersTo answer this question, let’s first establish conditions to make this issue relevant,
the ambassador said via video link from London at an event in Kyiv on WednesdayThat offer is about recouping some of that, ... and acknowledging that when there is peace, Ukraine has the potential to grow itself into a stronger economic position, through a partnership with the U.S.”
the official said
The United States does not believe that NATO membership for Ukraine is a realistic outcome of a negotiated settlement,
He departed from a draft prepared earlier in the day to deliver a blunter message about Ukraine’s prospects for NATO membership than originally written ... he saidAt no time was Secretary Hegseth advised by administration officials to avoid casting doubt on NATO membership — The secretary’s remarks were coordinated with senior members of the president’s national security team, and they supported the message he delivered top to bottom, full stop. In addition, the president himself reinforced Secretary Hegseth’s remarks concerning NATO membership shortly thereafter in his own public comments in the Oval Office,
Ullyot wroteYour reporting is 100% false,
Pentagon press secretary John Ullyot wrote by email in response to a request for comment about Hegseth’s speech, the advice he received from State Department officials and his private remarks about reducing U.S. troops in EuropeThe Prime Minister expressed his support for President Zelenskyy as Ukraine's democratically-elected leader and said that it was perfectly reasonable to suspend elections during wartime as the UK did during World War II,
the statement added, an apparent rebuke to Trump's insult of Zelenskyy as a "dictator without elections."
It is simply wrong and dangerous to deny President Zelenskyy democratic legitimacy,
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz told Der Spiegel magazineThe Prime Minister spoke to President Zelenskyy this evening and stressed the need for everyone to work together,
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President Zelenskyy is democratically elected,
Kristersson said
Why should dominance be handed over to a country that is an aggressor, a violator of international law, and the author of aggression against Ukraine,
Podolyak said
Putin fiercely hates Mr. Zelenskyy. He understands that he cannot break him. He has been unable to do so for three years,
Podolyak saidTo me, the concept of 'peace through strength,' which the American administration promotes, sounds strange,
he said,We greatly appreciate the bicameral and bipartisan support of the US Congress to the Ukrainian people in our fight against the Russian aggression
he wrote
I'm concerned they haven't held an election in a long time and we are funding their government.
He addedUnfortunately, President Trump – I have great respect for him as a leader of a nation that we have great respect for, the American people who always support us – unfortunately lives in this disinformation space,
Zelensky said
He is the first, and so far, in my opinion, the only Western leader who has publicly and loudly said that one of the root causes of the Ukrainian situation was the impudent line of the previous administration [of former U.S. President Joe Biden] to draw Ukraine into NATO,
Lavrov said, echoing a long-term Kremlin narrative about the reasons for its full-scale invasion of Ukraine
All European leaders, all without exception, essentially directly interfered in the election process in the U.S.,
the Russian president said