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We had a great call, and it lasted for a long time, over an hour,
Trump said of his conversation with the Russian president
We’ll take this offer now to the Russians, and we hope that they’ll say yes, that they’ll say yes to peace,
Mr. Rubio said at the end of the meetings
We also got into substantive details on how this war is going to permanently end, what type of guarantees they’re going to have for their long-term security and prosperity,
Mr. Waltz saidThe enemy is still fighting back, the flags were for designation.
Yet Russian Telegram source Archangel Spetsnaz also stated
It looks like the Ukrainian Armed Forces have completely left the city
Military analyst Yan Matveyev statedWe’re going to tell them this is what’s on the table, Ukraine is ready to stop shooting and start talking, and now it’ll be up to them to say yes or no.”
Afterwards, Mr Rubio said
The ball is now in Russia’s court”.
UKRAINE is ready to sign up to an immediate 30-day ceasefire deal, with the US declaringThis is an additional signal to Putin that he should also be interested in a ceasefire in the air,
said Andriy Kovalenko, a national security council official responsible for countering disinformation
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There are no (peace) negotiations yet, so there is nothing to disrupt here."
Asked whether the overnight drone attack could derail peace talks, Kremlin spokesperson Dmitri Peskov saidHopefully, we'll have a good meeting and good news to report,
Rubio said
We are ready to do everything to achieve peace,
Ukrainian presidency chief of staff Andriy Yermak told reporters as he entered Tuesday's meeting at a luxury hotelI´m not saying that alone is enough, but it´s the kind of concession you would need to see in order to end the conflict,
he told reportersIt is absolutely impossible to talk about positions yet,
he saidPutin has made very clear that Ukraine is not his final stop on his campaign to the imperial past,
Mr Brekelmans said
The meeting has begun very constructively,
Andriy Yermak, Mr Zelensky's chief of staff who is leading the Ukrainian delegation, wrote on Telegram,It’s time we let Putin wake up to the fact that his dreams do not match reality,
he addedWe don’t know how far apart they truly are,
he said, referring to Ukraine and RussiaWe’re getting there.”
Emerging for a break after more than two hours of talks, Mr. Waltz saidThe meeting with the US team started very constructively, and we are working to bring about a just and lasting peace,
said Yermak, who is Ukraine’s presidential chief of staff
Trump is not just a bad president, he’s a bad human being, rotten to his very core,
Minchenko said