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The statements of the US high officials now repeat official Russian state media narratives that there should be new elections in Ukraine, that Ukraine is to blame for the war, and that it doesn't want peace,
Ekaterina Schulmann, a non-resident scholar at the Carnegie Russia Eurasia Centre in Berlin, told DW Pro-war Russians — or simply those who watch Russian state media — were left dizzy by the policy U-turn with the United States, which was previously framed as a puppet master of the global disorder,
Luck has been on Putin's side lately, and I don't think that he has a strict plan when it comes to Ukraine,
Artem, a Moscow resident, said An attempt at peaceful settlement has been thwarted... It paves the way for the next stage of using probably tougher force,
Fyodor Lukyanov, the head of the Moscow-based Council for Foreign and Defense Policies, wrote in his analysis Everything is now decided by a big triangle: Russia, China, and the United States. It is in this triangle where a new world order will be shaped,
Dmitry Kiselyov, host of a Russian flagship propaganda show, concluded, accusing Europe of wanting to prolong the fighting in Ukraine I don't see warming in relations. Americans seem to be in a race to see who says the craziest thing. I would wait it out; I don't make loud conclusions for now,
Inna, a Moscow resident, told DW Trump told the cocaine clown the truth to his face: the Kyiv regime is playing with the third world war. The ungrateful pig received a strong slap on the wrist from the owners of the pigsty… Military aid to the Nazi machine must be stopped,
Dmitry Medvedev, deputy chairman of Russia's Security Council, wrote on his social media, reacting to the spat in the Oval Office The fragmentation of the collective West has begun."
The apparent split between the US and EU did not go unnoticed in Moscow, with Peskov saying If it's true, then this is a decision that really can push the Kyiv regime towards a peace process,
President Putin was right when he said that despite the openness of the Russian side to the negotiation process, these good intentions run into the unwillingness of the Kyiv regime to maintain such dynamics,
Dmitry Peskov told Russian journalists on Monday Trump says: there will be no war with me. He will make whatever deal just to finish it off quickly. That's why he pressured Zelenskyy, but he proved to be a tough cookie,
another Moscow resident told DW The president has been clear that he is focused on peace. We need our partners to be committed to that goal as well. We are pausing and reviewing our aid to ensure that it is contributing to a solution."
Unnamed White House official told CNN Ukraine lost its main external backer … even if the freeze of aid does not produce an immediate military outcome, it is still major psychological and political damage that is going to be felt both among the Ukrainian leadership and its troops."
Vuk Vuksanovic, associate at the London School of Economics think tank LSE IDEAS Resolve the issue with the Trump administration: if we need to apologize, we need to apologize. Our main task is not to lose the war and not lose people."
Ukrainian MP Oleksiy Goncharenko
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