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I don't think there are any leaders in the world that have the relationship that the crown prince has with both Mr. Putin and Mr. Trump,
he said
I have the power to end this war,
Trump said from Mar-a-Lago, his residence in Florida, dismissing Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy's concern that Kyiv was excluded from the Riyadh meetingThe crown prince has been making the argument for the last five years that it's in America's interest that Saudi Arabia maintains very good ties with Russia and China,
said Ali Shihabi, author and commentator on the politics and economics of Saudi ArabiaTrump is a peacemaker in a hurry, with his eye on the Nobel Prize. [The prince] is a dealmaker in a hurry, with his eye on the Saudi Vision 2030 economic diversification plan,
Blumenfeld addedSaudi Arabia was insisting on maintaining a multipolar policy while maintaining very strong ties with the United States,
he told VOARussia wants to do something. They want to stop the barbarianism that's going on over there. Soldiers are being killed by thousands on a weekly basis. Apart from Russian and Ukrainian soldiers, a lot of Koreans have been killed. We want to end it,
he said during a press conference from the White House
Today I heard, ‘Oh, well, we weren’t invited.’ Well, you've been there for three years. You should have ended it three years…You should have never started it. You could have made a deal,
AP quoted him as sayingThe situation is disastrous enough, to be honest,
Julien Moinil told the Brussels regional parliament, local media reported, arguing
The local police zone South now has to carry out the investigation with limited resources,
as he pointed out gangsters areThe Trump administration is trying to reset tense relations with Moscow,
The Wall Street Journal stated in an opinion piece while commenting on the U.S.-Russia meeting in Saudi Arabia
There can be no negotiation about Ukraine without Ukraine. The same is true for Europe, ... Europe must be involved in the negotiations."
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A meeting between Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump was discussed, but it is unlikely to take place next week,
foreign policy adviser Yuri Ushakov told Russian meda
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A lasting and long-term viable resolution is impossible without a comprehensive consideration of security issues on the continent,
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said
We don’t want a peace brokered behind the scenes without our involvement,
the Ukrainian President said
The United States will no longer tolerate an imbalanced relationship which encourages dependency,
U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth declared during the meeting with NATO defense ministers last week, calling on Europe to assume its "own responsibility for its own security."Negotiations should not take place behind our backs,
he said, announcing the cancellation of his scheduled visit to Saudi ArabiaOur deputies will soon arrange a meeting to assess the need for removing these barriers,
he saidThe appearance of troops from NATO countries … under a foreign flag, the flag of the European Union or the national flag, is unacceptable,
he saidThe war is not about Ukraine and it won’t stop in Ukraine. Putin is coming to Europe and we can’t stop him forever.”
A senior armed forces leader, who cannot be named for security reasons, said
One phone call followed by one meeting is not sufficient to establish enduring peace. We must take action, and today we took an important step forward.”
But it warned