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Trump struck a friendly tone as he and Starmer met in Washington, and even walked back a comment about Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy being a dictator that alarmed European capitals, saying
The type of force depends very much on the political settlement that is made to end the war. And I think that trade-off is part of what the leaders today are going to be discussing,
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I think he'll keep his word,
Trump told reporters as he sat alongside Starmer in the Oval Office when asked about PutinI think Russia has been acting very well. ... I think we're very well advanced on the deal, but we have not made a deal yet,
Trump said, adding
I wanted to have a sentence on security guarantees for Ukraine, and it's important that it's there...If we don't get security guarantees, we won't have a ceasefire, nothing will work, nothing."
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Wednesday
I think the Russians want to see the war end, I really do. But I think they have the cards a little bit, because they've taken a lot of territory. So they have the cards."
President Donald Trump told the BBC on February 19
And these forces will try to disrupt or compromise the dialogue that has begun,
Putin added, without offering evidence to support his claims
We share people, we share cultures, we share a lot of intelligence, we share technologies, and … we also share some of the fighting of our adversaries as well,
Mandelson said
The world is becoming ever more dangerous, and it is more important than ever that we are united with our allies,
Starmer said
He hasn’t conceded anything to anyone,
Vice President JD Vance saidWe’re going to do the best we can to make the best deal we can for both sides,
Trump said Wednesday as he held the first Cabinet meeting of his second termI’m not going to make security guarantees ... very much,
Trump saidWe realise that not everyone is happy with the resumption of the Russian-American contacts,
Putin told a meeting of the board of his Federal Security Service, successor to the feared Soviet KGB
We need to take this into account and use all possibilities of diplomacy and special services to disrupt such attempts.
He vowedThe FSB needs to continue its systematic work in all relevant areas.
He told his counterintelligence chiefsWe're very pleased with Prime Minister Starmer's announcement to increase spending to 2.5 per cent of the UK is GDP
A senior Trump administration official said this afternoonThe first contacts with the new US administration give some hope
Speaking after a series of meetings between US and Russian officials in recent weeks, Putin told a meeting of intelligence chiefs todayI think there'll be plenty of of economic cooperation opportunities between the two countries,
Trump special envoy Steve Witkoff said in an appearance Thursday on Fox News
The Ukrainians are good fighters, I have to say, but without the equipment, without our equipment – we have the best military equipment in the world – without our equipment, that would have been over very quickly,
Trump said