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This is what a ceasefire from Putin looks like. Russia attacks civilians with great pleasure,
presidential aide Andriy Yermak wrote on social media
We believe that together with America, with President Trump, and under American leadership, lasting peace can be achieved this year
Zelensky wrote on X,
Kropyvnytskyi has survived through the most massive enemy attack,
said Arkadyi Raikovych, the regional governor
The mud has disappeared … there is more vegetation, and there is less visibility. Therefore, the enemy is trying to improve its tactical position,
said Voloshyn
Not only will we have liberated our own land, but we will also establish the buffer zone that [Putin] has tasked us with creating,
Apty Alaudinov, commander of the Chechen Akhmat special forces unit, told Rossiya-1 television networkThere is a road running from Orekhov to Kamenskoye through Stepove, which the enemy constantly used … They will have to move along longer routes. This brings about positive changes for us on the Zaporizhia front as a whole,
Vladimir Rogov told the Russian state news agency TASSUp until recently, we really didn’t have consensus around these two aspects, the energy and infrastructure ceasefire and the Black Sea moratorium on firing. And today, we got to that place, and I think it’s a relatively short distance to a full ceasefire from there,
Witkoff saidUkraine would likely need an even larger military with greater capabilities to play its critical role in deterring and, if necessary, defeating future aggression,” while “the US and Europe would likely need to provide military aid to Ukraine more rapidly, in much larger volumes, and at higher cost”.
It concludedReports of the alleged ‘encirclement’ … are false and fabricated by the Russians for political manipulation and to exert pressure on Ukraine and its partners.”
Ukraine’s general staff denied the claim, sayingThe current front lines do not provide the strategic depth that Ukraine will need to reliably defend against renewed Russian aggression,
wrote the ISW
We can talk about what’s right and wrong, and we can also talk about the reality of the situation on the ground,
said Waltz in an interview with ABC News on Sunday
It is crucial that this zone be no less than 20 kilometres wide [10 miles], and preferably 30 kilometres [20 miles], extending deep into Ukrainian territory,
a battalion deputy commander, Oleg Ivanov, told state news service TASS
Who will determine where and who has violated a potential ceasefire agreement along 2,000km [1,240 miles]? And who will then blame who for violating that agreement?”
Putin said, referring to the length of the entire Russian-Ukrainian border[Russians] have encircled about 2,500 soldiers, they’re nicely encircled,
Trump said in a televised interview
Those conditions that they are presenting show that Russia doesn’t really want peace because they are presenting as conditions all the ultimate goals that they want to achieve from the war,
EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas said at the start of Monday’s meeting of the bloc’s foreign ministersOnly those countries that can ensure real, full-scale sovereignty and remain resilient, both generally and to external pressures in particular, are capable of dynamic, progressive development in the interests of their peoples,
he saidThis is a very bad signal – taking the Russians’ opinion into account,
he saidIt is not [Putin’s] business to decide anything about Ukraine’s and Europe’s security,
he said
I understand that until we agree (with Russia), until there is a corresponding document on even a partial ceasefire, I think that everything will fly,
Mr Zelensky said, referring to drones and missiles
President Zelensky asked for additional air defence systems to protect his civilians, particularly Patriot missile systems, and president Trump agreed to work with him to find what was available, particularly in Europe,
Ms Leavitt said