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God bless the people of Russia and Ukraine!”
Trump ended his second post about his call with Zelensky with the remarkable switcheroo of We want, like you, a sovereign and prosperous Ukraine. But we must start by recognising that returning to Ukraine’s pre-2014 borders is an unrealistic objective. Chasing this illusionary goal will only prolong the war and cause more suffering,
Mr Hegseth told officials from more than 40 countries that provide Kyiv with weapons I believe this nation views Putin and Russia as a great competitor in the region, at times an adversary. But as the president has said as well he enjoys having good diplomatic relationships with leaders around the world.”
Asked how the White House views Russia, Ms Leavitt said 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". 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 I just spoke to President Volodymyr Zelenskyy of Ukraine. The conversation went very well. He, like President Putin, wants to make PEACE,
Trump said on Truth Social, ... adding that We agreed to maintain further contact and plan upcoming meetings,
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],
We will swap one territory for another,
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,
We are going to have all this money in there, and I say I want it back. And I told them that I want the equivalent, like $500 billion worth of rare earth,
They may make a deal, they may not make a deal. They may be Russian someday, or they may not be Russian someday,
