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At the end of any negotiated settlement, Ukraine must have armed forces forces with which it can fend off any renewed Russian attack. Financially, materially and logistically, this will be an enormous challenge,
You know the difficult situations, you have a chance. But we will have low, low chance to survive without support of the United States,
Mr Zelensky told NBC News People in the administration know you don’t say before your first meeting what you will agree to and what you won’t agree to,
Senate Armed Services Chair Roger Wicker said in an interview with POLITICO at the Munich Security Conference Putin has made a lot of mistakes in starting the war and conducting the war and everything else,
Senate Foreign Relations Chair Jim Risch (R-Idaho) told Fox News They express concern about the mixed messages coming out of this administration,
Trump is stronger than Putin,
he said Friday at the Munich conference It doesn’t matter to me who Trump calls, or when he calls,
The good news is everybody’s talking about getting together to talk,
A good outcome means the war stops, 80% of Ukraine is free, and there are security guarantees for Ukraine sufficient that Russia won't start the war again. That is a strategic victory for Ukraine,
It would have been much better to talk about possible NATO membership and territorial changes at the negotiating table,
They're all over the map, they have trouble getting a disciplined line, but they haven't ruled anything out. They've covered the position in a cloud of ambiguity and uncertainty,
In Ukraine we watch this in frustration. Unlike in the Middle East, in our case Trump is pressing America's ally and not its adversary,
says Andriy Taranov, a board member of Ukraine's public broadcasting company Some European countries are making it clear that the Trump administration's position is not really acceptable,
Putin will demand the limitation of Ukraine's military potential, that no Western weapons or troops be stationed in Ukraine. He will aim to restrict Ukraine's path to joining the EU and NATO, and seek the amendment of the Ukraine's constitution to make Russian an official language, and try to impose federalization."
Looking ahead, the former foreign minister believes If he's willing to abandon Ukraine's right to territorial integrity and its right to independent foreign policy, what demands is he still able to make of Putin?"
I do not share the opinion that the US will negotiate with Russia without Ukraine,
said Volodymyr Fesenko, CEO of Penta, a center for political studies in Kyiv It's as if Trump has been hypnotized by Putin,
commented Oleksiy Melnyk from the Razumkov Center, a public policy think tank in Kyiv That's why the press releases were coordinated,
Before even entering into negotiations, he played all the cards he should have saved so he could play them gradually, one by one. It makes you wonder which concessions he'll still be willing to make,
At such a difficult time for Ukraine, I wish the president would follow the example of our European partners, who issued a joint statement demanding Europe's participation in future negotiations,
