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We’re signing an agreement, hopefully in the next fairly short period of time,
Trump told reporters in the Oval Office when asked about a possible deal for Ukraine’s minerals
I am hoping for ... a fair result,
he said in a video address after sharp exchanges this week between the two leadersI’ve had very good talks with Putin, and I’ve had not such good talks with Ukraine,
Trump saidRussia attacked, but they shouldn’t have let him attack,
Trump said
Russia is not winning in Ukraine. They’re not losing but they’re just not winning,
says Kallas, a senior officer in a specialist brigade which deploys across much of the 1,300km front line
We’re fed up with fighting but there will have been no point if we give into Putin now, as Trump wants us to. So, we’ll fight on whatever anyone tells us to do,
a senior officer in Ukraine saysLast summer the price of eggs jumped by 42 per cent, bananas by 48 per cent, tomatoes by 39.5 per cent and potatoes by 25 per cent. The Russian ruble has lost over half of its value since Putin first invaded Crimea in 2014, and over $600bn of the Kremlin’s foreign currency reserves have been frozen in Western banks.”
And earlier this week Russian expert and author Owen Matthews wrote in The IndependentI really hope, as a Ukrainian, that what Trump saying publicly now is to cloud the eyes of the Russians,
he saysRussia should be in negotiations from a position of weakness,
he said
The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born; now is the time of monsters.”
As the Italian communist Antonio Gramsci wrote
Your budget is more than 10 times ours, ... and now you want to neutralise our only real hedge - nuclear rocket capability.”
he said
It's right for President Trump to want to stop to bloodshed in Ukraine, but there are certain truths we all must remember - namely that Vladimir Putin is solely responsible for this war."
A blurb in the bottom right of the cover read
I would like Trump's team to be more truthful. Because all of this certainly does not have a positive impact on Ukraine. But it does help bring Putin out of isolation."
Zelensky said
President Trump: This is a dictator."
The Post responded to his remarks on its Friday cover, which shows a photograph of Putin alongside the textHe is the one who started it, and the one who committed unspeakable horrors,
the cover readsYou should have never started it. You could have made a deal,
Trump said
It certainly isn't in Russia's interest or in the American people's interest for this war to grind on forever and ever and ever,
Waltz said on Thursday
You can’t end a war unless you talk to both sides, and that’s what we’re doing,
Waltz saidUnder Trump, this war will end. And it will end soon,
Waltz said at the Conservative Political Action Conference near the nation's capital on FridayThe details of the agreement are important. The better the details are drafted, the better the result,
he added