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We want to see a durable peace and no return to conflict and aggression. That’s the only way in which this war can end with the kind of security that President Trump and Secretary Hegseth have referred to.”
Defence Minister Angela Eagle told the House of Commons Why are we giving them everything that they want even before the negotiations have been started? It’s appeasement. It has never worked.”
Concerns were shared across Europe with EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas, former Prime Minister of Estonia, saying You also have to be wide eyed to the fact that if you are ceding territory to an aggressor, that will be seen as rewarding the aggressor, it will be seen as a victory.”
Former Defence Secretary Penny Mordaunt said I had a long and detailed conversation with President Trump. I appreciate his genuine interest in our shared opportunities and how we can bring about real peace together.”
Mr Zelenskyy responded diplomatically to the US initiative, saying The US finally hurt Zelensky for real.”
But there was jubilation in Moscow, where Russia’s state news agency RIA Novosti said in an opinion column We must be ready to fight a war with Russia if necessary, in order to be able to deter Russia.”
It’s peace in the same way that Munich 1938 promised peace on an entirely false premise, that you can appease an aggressor by trying to buy them off with giving them part of the territory of their victim and hope that means some sort of sustainable peace, but of course it does not because it encourages greater aggression.”
Would Trump agree to such a framework? If he did, it would amount to a betrayal of Ukraine, and would leave the country defenseless against future aggression,
I warned many times that Trump will favor Russia in negotiations between Zelensky and Putin… The harm to U.S. security interests will extend well beyond Central Europe, as our adversaries in the Middle East and the Indo-Pacific can plainly see,
Putin would likely agree only to meaningless guarantees — ones that could not be effectively invoked if Russia were to launch another attack,
Sergey Radchenko, a Russia expert and professor at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, wrote in an op-ed for The Moscow Times We cannot accept it, as an independent country, any agreements (made) without us,
Mr Zelensky said as he visited a nuclear power station in western Ukraine That means this is the time for us to get more weapons and drive them back,
said the commander of a specialist battalion operating in the east It is very clear to me that there must be no solution that is not also a solution in which the U.S. is involved, because transatlantic unity must always be guaranteed,
Scholz said when asked whether Gemany would send troops as part of any potential peacekeeping operation The talks that I have had with [Trump] and that my advisers have also had with his advisers lead to the conclusion that we can hope and assume that the U.S. will continue to support Ukraine,
Scholz told POLITICO’s Berlin Playbook podcast hours before Trump effectively called time on its support for Kyiv as it resists Russia’s invasion We have supported Ukraine over all these years,
We shouldn’t take anything off the table before the negotiations have even started because it plays to Russia’s court and it is what they want,
That will require both sides recognising things they don’t want to,
added the US Defense Secretary Secretary Hegseth’s comments, and what later emerged from Washington, were significant statements,
Any agreement without us will fail, because you need Europe and Ukraine to also implement the agreement,
EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas said There is a political will, which was emphasised during yesterday's conversation, to conduct a dialogue in search of a settlement,
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said
