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The war is not about Ukraine and it won’t stop in Ukraine. Putin is coming to Europe and we can’t stop him forever.”
A senior armed forces leader, who cannot be named for security reasons, said
We will fight until the last death. We have nothing to lose. We are not going anywhere.”
A senior army source told The SunEven hearing the words British boots, before anything has happened, is a huge morale boost for my people.”
One told The SunIt is completely premature and the completely wrong time to be having this discussion now.”
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It proves you cannot trust Russia. Anybody who thinks they can is deluding themselves.”
And General the Lord Richard Dannatt, a former Chief of the General Staff, saidThe talks were very good,
Trump later said from Mar-a-Lago
They had a seat at the table for three years,
Trump saidWe were not invited to the meeting between the U.S. and Russia in Saudi Arabia. It was a surprise for us and we learned about it from the media,
he saidNot the least of the problems is bank transfers, which they are trying to limit for us,
the Russian Foreign Minister added
The first is probably the most urgent and certainly not the most difficult. This is to ensure the earliest possible appointment of Russian ambassadors to the United States and the United States to Russia. To remove the obstacles that for many years, primarily from the administration of [former US President Joe] Biden, have been primarily built on the direction of our diplomatic missions, seriously complicating their work,
Lavrov was quoted as saying by Russia's state-owned Tass news agency while announcing the agreements reached during the meetingRussia and the United States will hold regular consultations on Ukraine after both sides appoint negotiating teams,
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said at a press briefing following talks with US officials in Riyadh, on TuesdayJust a practical reality is that there is going to be some discussion of territory and there's going to be discussion of security guarantees,
he said
We're going to need to have vibrant diplomatic missions that are able to function normally in order to be able to continue these conduits,
Rubio told the Associated Press
There are other parties that have sanctions (on Russia), the European Union is going to have to be at the table at some point because they have sanctions as well,
said Rubio
This will only be feeding Putin's appetite,
a Ukrainian senior official requesting anonymity told AFP, referring to the launch of talks without UkraineWe want to partner with the US to deliver a just and lasting peace for Ukraine,
von der Leyen wrote on social media after meeting Kellogg in Brussels
We have a series of proposals, which our colleagues are thinking about. And I think that there will, possibly, be progress in the not so distant future, in the next two-three months,
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Nobody can dictate to another country, and we do not plan on dictating, ... but it is completely different when it comes to security issues and military alliances. Here we have a different approach that is well known."
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It is worth noting that a refusal to accept Kyiv into NATO is not enough,
Zakharova saidFebruary 2025 shows us that the Americans no longer feel responsible for European security – and that their interests are fundamentally different from ours,
Puglierin said