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Since Russia now has the upper hand on the battlefield, time is on its side in terms of peace negotiations. But the US is eager to withdraw from the crisis, ignoring the feelings of Europeans to some degree,
Wang said
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China has been calling for political settlement through dialogue and negotiation since the first day of the Ukraine crisis, and has been actively working for peace and pushing for talks,
Mao said
Ukraine is ready to accept this proposal — we see it as a positive step and are ready to take it,
Zelensky said
Zelensky has passed the test of wanting peace. It is now up to Putin to show his card."
Speaking about the Ukrainian President, Republican Mr Graham said
If they do not pursue the ceasefire with the same vigour as Ukraine, there will be hell to pay."
He added
We've got some conversations that are happening on the phone and in person and in person with some of our representatives over the next couple of days,
said Vance, who also tangled with Zelensky
Trump is likely to find that Putin believes he now has the upper hand in relations with the US because of his sense that the west has lost its dominance in global affairs.”
As John Lough, an associate fellow at Chatham House, wrote presciently last year
Russian exports to the US dropped by more than 80% last year, compared to the prewar period, to about $3bn, the lowest since 1992. The only damaging banking sanctions the US can swiftly impose would be the end of an exception from the existing measures, which allows some Russian banks to receive payments for energy exports.”
As Alexander Kolyandr of the Center for European Policy Analysis saidSo yes, we are in favour of a truce with both hands, but we need at least framework guarantees and at least from the United States,
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How to solve this conundrum? Just as we did after World War II … reconstruction of Ukraine must include economic reconciliation with Russia,
Ryan said
We can't make that same mistake if we want lasting peace for Ukraine and if we want to split Russia from China,
he added, noting otherPutin has officially annexed four Ukrainian oblasts as well as Crimea. But Moscow has yet to conquer any of the four entirely,
Rough told Fox News Digital while traveling to UkraineThe problem here is that the Russians only understand win-lose outcomes, which means that to prevent them from ever attacking Ukraine again, they must see themselves to be the losers in the war just as they did at the end of the Cold War,
Michael Ryan, former deputy assistant secretary of Defense for European and NATO Policy and former acting assistant secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs, told Fox News DigitalThere are things that wouldn't be pleasant in a financial sense. I can do things financially that would be very bad for Russia. I don't want to do that because I want to get peace,
Trump told reporters in the Oval Office
This is a positive development that can be a step towards a comprehensive, just and lasting peace for Ukraine. The ball is now in Russia’s court,
she added
The EU is ready to play its full part, together with its partners, in the upcoming peace negotiations,
von der Leyen stressedWashington has become Nero’s court,
he declared, alluding to the tyrannical Roman emperor,
I would see perhaps 15,000 to 20,000 European troops, enough to deter, but not so large as to be seen by Moscow as a NATO battle corps,
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Who can believe that the Russia of today will stop at Ukraine?”
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We were at war with a dictator,
Mr. Malhuret said, alluding to Mr. Putin