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I believe that's the reason the war started, because [predecessor President Joe] Biden went out and said that they could join NATO,
said Trump of Russia's February 2022 invasion He (Putin) sees it as a window of opportunity that needs to be used and to get as much as possible,
There is a lot of euphoria and emotion in Russia now because it looks as if Putin already won, Trump legitimised him as a respected partner and Ukraine lost,
analyst Konstantin Kalachev told AFP Of course, the Kremlin hopes that, with the help of Trump, the West will change so much that it can welcome Putin again,
Trump is not a panacea for Putin. In his military logic, he thinks he can achieve his goals in Ukraine without Trump,
It shows the abnormality of those years that we went through under the Biden administration,
Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Thursday Negotiations are only just starting. We don't know what Trump plan looks like,
Putin's patience has paid off,
Russian political analyst Tatiana Stanovaya said These three years were a serious challenge for all of us and for me,
the 71-year-old said in December, referring to the Ukraine conflict in general He (Putin) has not changed his position: Ukraine should become a friendly country to Russia, with ironclad guarantees,
The promise to exchange visits is a victory for Putin. Any dictatorship sees a visit from the US president as the highest form of international legitimacy, almost a magical ritual that lifts a diplomatic curse,
said Alexander Baunov, a political analyst at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace thinktank Trump will ‘allow’ Russia to take what it has conquered – but no more, of course. Meanwhile, he’ll offer Ukraine some guarantees,
said the prominent Russian ultranationalist writer Zakhar Prilepin on his Telegram channel For Putin, a real solution means a Ukraine that is ‘friendly’ to Russia – deprived of military capability, which has a rewritten constitution and guarantees non-membership in Nato,
He’ll plant himself right in the middle of our Ukraine. Let me remind you, all of Ukraine is ours. All of Ukraine is Russian land,
We wanted to chainsaw the western world into pieces, but he decided to cut through it himself,
Zelenskyy had repeatedly urged Trump to speak with him first before engaging with Putin. Instead, Trump did the exact opposite,
gloated Sergei Markov, a popular Russian commentator At times, many in the elites questioned whether it was wise for Putin to start the war or not settle for peace earlier,
said a well-connected businessman in Moscow Investors dreamed about this scenario but did not really believe it was possible,
the Cifa Broker chief analyst, Ovanes Oganisyan, told the business newspaper Kommersant Now, Putin’s main focus is Trump – everyone else is irrelevant,
the foreign policy source said His next move is to secure a closed-door meeting with Trump, where he can further press his case,
