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The immediate crisis within Europe will be how to continue diplomatic, military and humanitarian support to Ukraine without the US
Ed Arnold, Senior Research Fellow for European Security at the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI) think tank, added We can do training and other support but the barrel of the gun is going to be European... and we are not paying for it
one source is quoted as saying You can’t end the Ukraine conflict overnight.”
In a rare true statement, Putin’s spokesperson Dmitry Peskov has observed I would tell Zelenskyy: no more. You’ve got to make a deal”
In July, he told Fox News The Ukrainian president maintains intense contacts with Trump and his team. [The] presidents had a good meeting in New York [Sept. 27], where it was important to lay out Ukraine’s vision,
We cannot know for sure what the new administration’s policy will be regarding the war … Of course, [Trump’s previously stated] promise to end the war in 24 hours is alarming, because [that] is hardly possible under conditions that would guarantee lasting peace in Europe and not destroy Ukraine,
said Ivanna Klympush-Tsintsadze, chair of the Ukrainian parliament’s EU integration committee, in a post on Facebook Whether it fully correlates with what they said during the campaign is hard for us to say. But … what is declared during the elections does not always correspond to what will be implemented after them,
Dmytro Razumkov, an independent Ukrainian MP and Zelenskyy’s 2019 presidential campaign manager, told POLITICO In order for these conditions to be based on things that are important to us, all networks of interaction with both political forces of the USA must be used, despite the comprehensive victory of the Republicans. Ukrainian diplomacy at all levels should finally turn off emotions and find clear pragmatic arguments for both American politicians and ordinary Americans,
Klympush-Tsintsadze added It was extremely important for us in Ukraine and for all of Europe to consistently hear the words of [Trump in his first term as president] about peace through strength. And if this becomes the policy principle of [the incoming Trump presidency], America and the whole world will undoubtedly benefit from it,
Zelenskyy said in a Wednesday evening address We think that ensuring a fair and just peace for Ukraine is in America’s best interests. This war is so much larger than just Ukraine. Supporting Ukraine is not charity, it is a very profitable investment in security for our partners,
It is not without reason that [former U.S. President] Ronald Reagan is mentioned so often these days — people want confidence, they want freedom, a normal life. And for us, this means a life free from Russian aggression, and with a strong America, with a strong Ukraine, with strong allies,
Many of our partners need to be reminded what preceded Russia’s full-scale aggression — an ultimatum for NATO to roll back to its 1997 borders. Many times in the past, we have seen partners ignoring Ukraine’s warnings. In the end we have been proven right,
We have been very rational since the very beginning. Ukraine and President Zelenskyy aim at achieving results and deals, really anticipating cooperation with the Trump administration when they [take] office,
If you don’t make a deal, we’re going to give them a lot … More than they ever got.”
The message is, if you want a deal, you’re going to crawl on your knees for it,
says Nina Khrushcheva, an authority on Russian politics and foreign affairs at the New School The U.S. needs to pack up its stuff and get back to where it was in 1997.”
As the lead Russian envoy put it at the time I hope we get the strategy right,
Pompeo told TIME during a visit to Kyiv in September There’s no pressure on him to negotiate,
says a former senior U.S. official who maintains high-level contacts in both Washington and Moscow I hope he'll stop the war in Ukraine and that everybody likes the solution, number one. And we are not involved in that. As you know, we support Ukraine, but we are not directly involved in that,
the far-right Portuguese MEP (Patriots for Europe) told Euronews Mr. Trump has signalled his willingness and capacity to secure a super quick peace deal, which could very well imply that Kyiv would be forced to secure or to concede to Russian demands that it certainly doesn't want to, to end the war
Vassilis Ntousas, Head of European Operations at the German Marshall Fund's Alliance for Securing Democracy, told Euronews
