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This would be a capitulation to Putin rewarding him for his war crimes
Reacting to the Trump peace plan for Ukraine, former British Army commander Hamish de Bretton-Gordon said
Any forced peace that would give Russia a veneer of winning territory would potentially stimulate World War Three.
Former UK military intelligence officer Philip Ingram added
We are determined to create conditions for a long-term settlement so that Ukraine is an independent, sovereign state, and not an instrument in the hands of third countries, and not used in their interests,
Putin said
The borders of Ukraine should be in accordance with the sovereign decisions of people who live in certain territories and which we call our historical territories."
Asked about the future borders of Ukraine, Putin saidIf there is no neutrality, it is difficult to imagine the existence of any good-neighborly relations between Russia and Ukraine,
Putin said
Can Donald Trump end the war in Ukraine and explain how he will do this while preserving Ukrainian sovereignty?"
Newsweek asked the artificial intelligence chatbot ChatGPT using the prompt
They're dying, Russians and Ukrainians. I want them to stop dying. And I'll have that done—I'll have that done in 24 hours,
Trump said in 2023 at a CNN town hall
If we had a real president, a president that knew — that was respected by Putin ... he would have never invaded Ukraine,
Trump said during the first presidential debate against Joe BidenWe can do training and other support but the barrel of the gun is going to be European. We are not sending American men and women to uphold peace in Ukraine. And we are not paying for it. Get the Poles, Germans, British, and French to do it."
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Trump has one quality that is useful for us: as a businessman to the core, he mortally dislikes spending money on various hangers-on and freeloaders—on idiotic allies, on bad charity projects and on gluttonous international organizations,
former Russian president and still-prominent political figure, Dmitry Medvedev, said in a post to messaging app Telegram on WednesdayI have a very exacting plan on how to stop Ukraine and Russia,
the president-elect said in SeptemberAnyone—no matter how senior in Trump's circle—who claims to have a different view or more detailed window into his plans on Ukraine simply doesn't know what he or she is talking about or doesn't understand that he makes his own calls on national-security issues, many times in the moment, particularly on an issue as central as this,
a former Trump National Security Council aide told the JournalTrump has kept on saying he could solve the issue in one day,
said former NATO official Edward Hunter ChristieWith Ukraine's incursion into Russia's territory, Ukraine can use the occupied territories as a bargaining chip for a territorial swap—'We will return Kursk and you should give us back Crimea and Donetsk.'
Yuri Urbanovich, an associate professor emeritus on the general faculty at the University of Virginia, called Kursk a "bargaining chip" when speaking to UVA Today, and saidYou're gaining territory on the ground in Ukraine, you've got the North Koreans sending you thousands of troops in addition to all of the munitions and ordnance that you're fighting with. Now, Trump, who says he wants to end the war, and 'end the war in a day' which means the territory you've taken you can keep taking, that you can keep, and that the Americans have spent way too much money on Ukraine, this is all music to Putin's ears."
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But today, the U.S. administration holds a contrary position. Let's wait and see what happens in January,
Peskov told reportersPutin, of course, really wanted Trump to win. He did the most in favor of Trump illegally, illicitly, to try to interfere with the U.S. election as we saw including those bomb threats that were called in yesterday. Fortunately, it didn't actually impact the outcome, but if you're Putin, this has been a fantastic few weeks for you."
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I am looking forward to personally congratulating President Trump and discussing ways to strengthen Ukraine's strategic partnership with the United States."
Mr Zelensky wrote on X
Europe will have to assume that the U.S. will not continue its support at the current level under a President Trump and will, therefore, have to take on the full burden,
Hodges saidBased on what he did with Ukraine and Russia in his first term, and on what he's said the past couple of years, I am not hopeful that the Trump administration will develop and pursue a strong, effective comprehensive strategy to help Ukraine win and to protect the so-called international rules-based order,
Hodges said