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Putin doesn’t want elections in Ukraine because he cherishes Ukrainian democracy. He wants elections to weaken Ukraine under the current state of emergency. We must not fall into that trap,
Stenergard told Swedish outlet Aftonbladet on Wednesday The Americans made a mistake,
Pistorius said in an interview with public broadcaster Deutschlandfunk, I think this is the wrong policy and the wrong accusations of Ukraine. They are accusing the victim, and he (Trump) is taking our enemy’s side,
Elections during the war are impossible. A lot of people have left the country. This is totally irrelevant question, to spend resources for the elections during the war,
said Olha Yurkevych, a 59-year-old artist It's time to unite,
Kharkiv Mayor Ihor Terekhov wrote on the Telegram app Ukraine needs bullets, not ballots."
Ruslan Stefanchuk, the speaker of Ukraine's parliament, captured the mood in a post on social media For Ukrainians, there is no problem of legitimacy now... There are, of course, some isolated voices, but they are an absolute minority,
They are actually about the same as Trump’s. Trump’s statements are not intended to be historically accurate but to shock Europeans into action.
You've been there for three years,
Trump, in comments to reporters on Tuesday, said ... referring It seems like Russia and the U.S. are preparing an ultimatum to Ukraine, talking about Ukraine without Ukraine,
It’s very clear to us the importance of the sovereignty of this nation and the independence of this nation as well. Part of my mission is to sit and listen,
Kellogg said upon arrival on an overnight train from Poland We have a pretty good accounting of where [the aid] is going
Keith Kellogg, Trump’s special envoy for Ukraine and Russia, as saying Since 2022, Congress has appropriated $175.2 billion in aid due to the war in Ukraine,
the Center for Strategic and International Studies said in a recent explainer Unfortunately, President Trump — I have great respect for him as a leader of a nation that we have great respect for, the American people who always support us — unfortunately lives in this disinformation space,
Zelensky said, according to CNN I would like to have more truth with the Trump team,
The US believes Belgium, France and other countries are blocking. It’s absurd. We need to get serious and fast.”
The former PM later added Today I heard ‘oh, well, we weren’t invited’. Well, you’ve been there for three years … You should have never started it. You could have made a deal.”
He went on to blame Ukraine for its invasion, saying Our position is that during a war, there is no room for politics – and especially not for elections,
said Valentyn Nalyvaichenko, an MP from the Fatherland party of the former prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko and a former head of the SBU security agency A large proportion of aid has actually been spent by donor nations on their own replacements of gifted kit. So some large sums are ‘spin’. The US, for example, has sent only $100bn of the $175bn as direct aid to Ukraine and spent at least $25bn on its own replenishment.”
We are ready to sit down and speak. Pick the platform that you like.”
Six days before Russian troops rolled into Ukraine, Zelenskyy said
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