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We long talked about opportunities to achieve peace, discussed our readiness to work together at the team level,
Zelenskyy said on social media, We believe America's strength is enough — together with us, together with all our partners — to push Russia and Putin to peace,
We also spoke about my discussion with @SecScottBessent and the preparation of a new document on security, economic cooperation, and resource partnership,
And for all this, we need weapons and money. And we will ask the U.S. for this,
Zelenskiy said, describing that as his "Plan B". We want, like you, a sovereign and prosperous Ukraine. But we must start by recognizing that returning to Ukraine's pre-2014 borders is an unrealistic objective,
Hegseth told a meeting at NATO headquarters in Brussels If Ukraine is not in NATO ... we need an army as numerous as the Russians have today,
Zelenskyy said in an interview with The Economist published on Wednesday The conversation went very well. He, like President Putin, wants to make PEACE."
After a call with the Ukrainian leader, Trump said We agreed to maintain further contact and plan upcoming meetings,
Ukraine was left to rely on Russia’s word. After Bucha, that seemed like a bad idea. Plus Ukraine had just achieved a big military victory, and Zelenskyy wanted to keep that momentum going on the battlefield. Boris encouraged him. But he was one relatively minor factor among many,
I said: ‘This cannot be. It violates the rights of our citizens, of the constitution. It would be a full betrayal. We will not submit to the ultimatums of Putin,
It seems very sad that they followed the orders or requests of Mr Johnson. As Mr Arakhamia said: ‘We could have ended these military actions a year and a half ago, but the Brits talked us out of it so we refused.’ And where is Mr Johnson now? And the war goes on,
When we returned from Istanbul, Boris Johnson came to Kyiv and said that we would not sign anything with them at all, and let’s just fight,
he said in a November 2023 interview It doesn’t fit with logic; what was he supposed to be talking us out of?”
said Zelenskyy, directly addressing the claims for the first time There were several approaches with ultimatums and I never gave my approval for it,
said Zelenskyy of Russian demands for ending its full-scale invasion Putin likes this story a lot, about Turkey, these meetings,
said Zelenskyy, during an hour-long interview with the Guardian held in the presidential administration office in Kyiv on Monday We will have meetings with President Trump's team. I think I will meet in Munich in the coming days with Vice President Vance and the whole team. I also have a number of meetings planned – there are two dozen important senators and congressmen – these will be different, separate meetings. I will also have many meetings with European leaders. We expect that my team will have the opportunity to contact both Kellogg [Trump's special envoy to Ukraine, Keith Kellogg – ed.] and other members of the Trump team,
Could be Washington – well, I'm not going there [to Ukraine – ed.]".
When asked by journalists how the meeting with Zelenskyy might take place, Trump said I don’t think that United Nations troops or anything similar has ever really helped anyone in history,
Mr Zelensky said of a peacekeeping force without the US It is impossible to discuss only with the Europeans, because the only guarantee, currently or in the future, is Nato [membership],
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,
