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I tend to believe that President Putin is operating in good faith. He said that he was going to be operating in good faith to the president [Trump] yesterday, and I take him at his word,
Any attacks that happened last night would have happened before that order was given,
However, it’s too early to relax. Russia will continue to present its ultimatums in the next stages of talks,
It’s one thing when you come [to negotiations] with a ready algorithm that began to work, and another thing when you start working from scratch,
This is Ukraine’s biggest loss in the past year
Mitrokhin told Al Jazeera Putin shows that Trump is nothing but his lap dog,
said Larysa Kozhedub, a 52-year-old manicurist whose nephew Oleksiy was killed near the eastern city of Pokrovsk last October America lost the Cold War, and Ukraine is paying for it,
Yes, Putin wants to help Trump to kill two birds with one stone,
Tyshkevych told Al Jazeera Our side will support it,
Zelenskyy told a news conference held after the Trump-Putin talks Everyone here was very afraid that Putin will yet again zombify Trump,
he told Al Jazeera, referring to Trump’s susceptibility to Putin’s views on the Russia-Ukraine conundrum Today, Putin virtually threw away the proposal to fully cease the fire,
It is absolutely clear that we are talking about yet another provocation deliberately concocted by the Kyiv regime, aimed at derailing the peace initiatives of the U.S. president,
There are only two ways to respond to the proposal of the president of the United States: it’s a yes or a no — no buts, no conditions,
Even last night, after Putin’s conversation with ... Trump, when Putin said that he was allegedly giving orders to stop strikes on Ukrainian energy, there were 150 drones launched overnight, including on energy facilities,
Zelenskyy said at a news conference in Helsinki with Finnish President Alexander Stubb If the Russians don’t hit our facilities, we definitely won’t hit theirs,
This confirms that we must continue to pressure Russia for the sake of peace,
I do not believe that we should make any concessions in terms of assistance for Ukraine, but rather there should be an increase in assistance for Ukraine,
Zelenskyy said Wednesday, reaction to the seemingly unchanged Russian demands Eliminating the energy revenue that Russia uses to fund its war on Ukraine is the path to peace. With Russian allies like China and collaborators in Europe, sanctions won't do it alone, so these Ukrainian strikes must expand. Putin the strong leader who loves his country, sure."
Garry Kasparov, vice president of the World Liberty Congress, wrote on X in January Does an energy infrastructure ceasefire make much sense for Ukraine? Their energy system has been hard hit, but Ukraine is emerging from winter. And they've gotten pretty good at roughing up the Russian refining sector with drone strikes, taking roughly 10% of capacity offline."
In a post on X, formerly known as Twitter, David Sheppard, a journalist, wrote White House readout. Note the U.S. has to get Kyiv to agree to halt bombing of *Russia's* energy infrastructure to make the 30-day ceasefire stick. Kyiv has hit the Moscow oil refinery, the Tuapse oil refinery and (just today) targeted a fuel and energy facility in Astrakhan. You might say Ukraine holds a few 'cards' in this agreement."
Michael Weiss, an editor at The Insider, wrote on X about the White House's press release following Trump and Putin's call
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