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If there is no political pressure, if there are no decisions, North Korea will increase the number of its soldiers,
[A] ceasefire was tried back in 2014 ... and we lost Crimea."
Recalling a failed 2014 ceasefire with Russia that led to Crimea's annexation and set the stage for further conflict, Zelensky stated I would like to take this opportunity to congratulate him on his election as president of the United States of America.”
Speaking at the Valdai discussion club in Sochi on Thursday, he said I do not know what is going to happen now. I have no clue."
The 72-year-old Kremlin chief gave just one note of caution He behaved, in my opinion, in a very correct way, courageously, like a real man."
What was said about the desire to restore relations with Russia, to bring about the end of the Ukrainian crisis, in my opinion this deserves attention at least."
Referring to Trump's remarks during the election campaign about Ukraine and Russia, he said 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 This would be a capitulation to Putin rewarding him for his war crimes
Reacting to the Trump peace plan for Ukraine, former British Army commander Hamish de Bretton-Gordon said Any forced peace that would give Russia a veneer of winning territory would potentially stimulate World War Three.
Former UK military intelligence officer Philip Ingram added We must be preparing for any decision. We want a fair end to the war. I am sure that the imminent end of the war means losses."
If it's just fast, it means losses for Ukraine. I just don't yet understand how this could be in any other way. Maybe we do not know something, do not see,
I believe that President Trump really wants a quick decision” to end Russia’s war against Ukraine
Zelenskyy told journalists in Budapest He [Trump] wants this war to be finished,
Zelenskyy said through an interpreter I heard that it’s better to implement a ceasefire and then, ‘we’ll see,
Zelenskyy said, referring to Orbán’s comments One thing is clear to me: he genuinely wants an end to the war,
the Ukrainian leader emphasised Trump has one quality that is useful for us: as a businessman to the core, he mortally dislikes spending money on various hangers-on and freeloaders—on idiotic allies, on bad charity projects and on gluttonous international organizations,
former Russian president and still-prominent political figure, Dmitry Medvedev, said in a post to messaging app Telegram on Wednesday I have a very exacting plan on how to stop Ukraine and Russia,
the president-elect said in September Anyone—no matter how senior in Trump's circle—who claims to have a different view or more detailed window into his plans on Ukraine simply doesn't know what he or she is talking about or doesn't understand that he makes his own calls on national-security issues, many times in the moment, particularly on an issue as central as this,
a former Trump National Security Council aide told the Journal With Ukraine's incursion into Russia's territory, Ukraine can use the occupied territories as a bargaining chip for a territorial swap—'We will return Kursk and you should give us back Crimea and Donetsk.'
Yuri Urbanovich, an associate professor emeritus on the general faculty at the University of Virginia, called Kursk a "bargaining chip" when speaking to UVA Today, and said You're gaining territory on the ground in Ukraine, you've got the North Koreans sending you thousands of troops in addition to all of the munitions and ordnance that you're fighting with. Now, Trump, who says he wants to end the war, and 'end the war in a day' which means the territory you've taken you can keep taking, that you can keep, and that the Americans have spent way too much money on Ukraine, this is all music to Putin's ears."
