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We must be preparing for any decision. We want a fair end to the war. I am sure that the imminent end of the war means losses."
Zelenskiy said
If it's just fast, it means losses for Ukraine. I just don't yet understand how this could be in any other way. Maybe we do not know something, do not see,
he said
I believe that President Trump really wants a quick decision” to end Russia’s war against Ukraine
Zelenskyy told journalists in Budapest
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He [Trump] wants this war to be finished,
Zelenskyy said through an interpreterI heard that it’s better to implement a ceasefire and then, ‘we’ll see,
Zelenskyy said, referring to Orbán’s commentsIf you don’t make a deal, we’re going to give them a lot … More than they ever got.”
Last year he
One thing is clear to me: he genuinely wants an end to the war,
the Ukrainian leader emphasised
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 BidenThere has been much talk about the need to yield to Putin, to back down, to make some concessions, ... It's unacceptable for Ukraine and suicidal for all Europe.
Zelensky said
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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 WednesdayTrump has kept on saying he could solve the issue in one day,
said former NATO official Edward Hunter ChristieI 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 JournalYou'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."
Bremmer continuedWith 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 said.jpg)
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."
He saidI 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