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We’re the thing that’s holding it back, and frankly, we’ll go as long as we have to go, because we’re not going to let the other happen,
said Trump, in what may be the only silver lining of his remarks on Monday, indicating he wouldn’t allow Ukraine to collapse completely
I’m just here to try and get peace,
Trump said in the Oval Office, where he riffs out policy dailyWe shouldn’t take anything off the table before the negotiations have even started,
said Kaja Kallas, the EU’s foreign policy chief, before the Nato meeting on ThursdayWhat’s left to negotiate?”
read one text message from a European official, who called it a “surrender”.Will the Government impress on President Trump at every possible opportunity that the reason why appeasement led to World War Two was that it left a vacuum in Europe?
He said
We see it in their assault tactics, on their increasingly weak combat readiness. I recently talked to POWs and they have little to no motivation left. So I think it is time for maximum pressure on them, not negotiations,
Oleh added
I was shocked by this. If the Americans don’t want to give us guarantees, they should return our nuclear weapons back,
said ValentynaWe will not trust it for generations,
Valentyna saidOf course, we were busy fighting, but it is still sad to hear this kind of rhetoric from a key ally. Our army is still our strongest security guarantee. And I am sure no one wants such a strong asset to fall under Russia’s command,
Ukrainian soldier Oleh, fighting near Chasiv Yar in the Donetsk region, told POLITICOI was forced to move to Kyiv at the end of 2014 when Russians seized our land first. I have three apartments there and some Russians live in them illegally now. I want to go home, to Ukrainian Luhansk, to my flats and my girls,
he said, while showing pictures of his beehivesBecause the Kremlin would not be stopped by any agreement they offer us. It will not stop until it swallows us whole. But I think we need time to recuperate,
Liubov addedAs a refugee from Luhansk region, it is hard for me to hear this,
Volodymyr Pesnev said, while standing with his friends near a department store in KyivNo, we are, but we want it secured, and the money is going to be secured"
When asked if he would cease sending funds to Ukraine, Trump said ... and he added
The Kremlin-linked Donald Trump blackmailed Ukraine (again), threatening to withhold aid unless it provides him and his corporate oligarchs with $500B in rare earth material or equivalent contracts. Hours later he praised Russia. 90% of US Ukraine aid is already reimbursed before delivery."
In a post on X, formerly known as Twitter, Anonymous, the activist hacker group, wrote
We're getting security on our money, we're going to have it secured, they have rare earth, oil and gas, and they have a lot of other things we're asking for security on our money."
After criticizing the Biden administration's provision of aid to Ukraine, he saidWe are going to have all this money in there, and I say I want it back. And I told them that I want the equivalent, like $500 billion worth of rare earth,
Trump said
I would say this: Russia has no legitimate claim to any of Ukraine’s land, and any deal that's made, I think, should be made in a circumstance where, over time, Ukraine reclaims all of its land and that actually Russia pays for the reconstruction of it,
Perry stated
I think President Trump is obviously going to have to clean that up,
Perry said in response to whether Trump is prepared to resolve the conflictAll of this is being decided now,
he added in a video address published on social mediaSecurity of people, security of our state, security of economic relations and, of course, our resource sustainability: not only for Ukraine, but for the entire free world,
he said