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It will most probably not be in our interest and in the interest of Ukraine to have such a deal,
Pavel said at the IISS Prague Defence Summit on Friday I don't think it is realistic, but at the same time, I believe that he will make an effort to end this war and to make a deal with President [Vladimir] Putin,
said Pavel, a retired general and former chairman of NATO's military committee With President Trump, we will probably have to do it faster,
If there are any signals from the American side that they have ideas on how to move forward in terms of settlement, rather than continuing to pump the Kyiv regime with all kinds of assistance in the hope that it will eventually lead to Moscow’s strategic defeat, we will undoubtedly do everything we can to analyse this and come up with a response… It is clear that there is no simple solution to this problem or these problems related to what is happening in Ukraine and around it."
Of course, it was an exaggeration of sorts when [Trump] was saying he would do it overnight."
In his remarks, reported by RT International, Peskov said If the new [US] administration seeks peace rather than a continuation of the conflict, it will be better than the previous one."
As far as I know, President Trump has not made any decisions or announced any actions related to Ukraine. I would ask you to be very careful with this information when using the information that one of President Trump's advisers has proposed this or that decision. In my opinion, there is still a discussion going on,
Kosiniak-Kamysz said at a press conference when asked about the WSJ report And we are implementing this by spending 4.7% of [our] GDP on defence, building the third-largest army in NATO at the moment, right after the United States and Türkiye and increasing our operational forces. These are our tasks today, and if we fulfil them, I think our voice will be important in our contacts with the Trump administration, including on the Ukraine issue. And this is the raison d'être of Poland, this is our strategy."
Quote from Władysław Kosiniak-Kamysz We are ready to cooperate, we are waiting, but today I ask everyone to abstain [from any speculations in this regard]. Let's stick to declarations, proposals, what's on the table, but not speculation. Especially on such a sensitive topic as the war in Ukraine."
Quote from Władysław Kosiniak-Kamysz For the next four years, the White House has a boss who obviously doesn’t want to continue American involvement in the war in Ukraine as happened under Biden and as might have happened under Harris. The Kremlin thinks it’s easier to negotiate with Trump, because he acts on business interests, not values. His priority is what he can get in return,
Russia will work with the new administration when it 'takes up residence' in the White House, fiercely defending Russian national interests and focusing on achieving all the set objectives of the special military operation (in Ukraine),
the ministry said, as reported by Reuters I know Zelensky very well, and I know Putin very well, even better. And I had a good relationship, very good with both of them. I would tell Zelensky no more. You got to make a deal. I would tell Putin, if you don't make a deal, we're going to give him a lot. We're going to [give Ukraine] more than they ever got if we have to. I will have the deal done in one day. One day,
Trump told Fox News in July His words about his desire to restore relations with the Russian Federation and to help resolve the Ukrainian crisis, in my opinion, deserve attention,
Putin said referring to Trump This opens up new opportunities for resetting relations between Russia and the United States,
European leaders should prepare for a more unpredictable and potentially less supportive U.S. stance under a Trump administration,
Edgar Bellow, geopolitics professor at NEOMA Business School in Reims, France told Newsweek The efforts of some Western countries, led by the United States, to end the war in Ukraine will accelerate the resolution of this conflict,
he said according to the Anadolu Agency in comments also picked up by Russian state media The message is, if you want a deal, you’re going to crawl on your knees for it,
says Nina Khrushcheva, an authority on Russian politics and foreign affairs at the New School The U.S. needs to pack up its stuff and get back to where it was in 1997.”
As the lead Russian envoy put it at the time I hope we get the strategy right,
Pompeo told TIME during a visit to Kyiv in September There’s no pressure on him to negotiate,
says a former senior U.S. official who maintains high-level contacts in both Washington and Moscow
