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In the worst case scenario, Ukraine will keep fighting. If their defenses crumble, I don't think that the American people want to see those pictures on television and to be held responsible,
Farkas said
Russia has won Round One,
U.S. Representative Jake Auchincloss, a Massachusetts Democrat who is a co-chair of the bipartisan House Ukraine caucus, told ReutersJust 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
No one is excluding Ukraine,
Putin said in a televised meeting with journalists in Saint Petersburg,
Yes, I have been informed. I rate them highly, there are results,
he was quoted as saying by the Interfax news agency on WednesdayIt is impossible to solve many issues, including the Ukrainian crisis, without increasing the level of trust between Russia and the United States,
he saidPutin’s information about a large-scale Russian offensive is a lie,
he saidWe are not imposing anything on anyone. We are ready, I have already said this a hundred times – if they want, please, let these negotiations take place. And we will be ready to return to the table for negotiations,
he said
This isn’t positive for Ukraine. What it does is that they’re bringing Putin out of isolation, and the Russians are happy because the discussion focuses on them,
Zelenskyy said at a news conference on Wednesday, differing with TrumpRussia wants to do something,
Trump said in FloridaHe is the first, and so far, in my opinion, the only Western leader who has publicly and loudly said that one of the root causes of the Ukrainian situation was the impudent line of the previous administration to draw Ukraine into NATO.”
Praising Trump, Lavrov said on WednesdayThe Russian-American meeting in Saudi Arabia came as a surprise to us, just as it did to many others. To be honest, I don’t really care. What matters to me is that our partners take time to think about us,
Zelenskyy said on Tuesday during a news conference
We understand the need for security guarantees”.
Trump’s envoy for Ukraine, Keith Kellogg, who arrived in Kyiv on Wednesday, saidI think I have the power to end this war,
he said[At ... At the end of February] there may be [a meeting], or there may not be,
Peskov told reporters, ... according to Russian state-affiliated media TASS
Russia wants to do something. They want to stop the barbarianism that's going on over there. Soldiers are being killed by thousands on a weekly basis. Apart from Russian and Ukrainian soldiers, a lot of Koreans have been killed. We want to end it,
he said during a press conference from the White House
Today I heard, ‘Oh, well, we weren’t invited.’ Well, you've been there for three years. You should have ended it three years…You should have never started it. You could have made a deal,
AP quoted him as sayingWe not only listened, but also heard each other.”
Lavrov also called the conversation “very useful” and saidI have reason to believe that the American side has started to better understand our position,
he addedThe situation is disastrous enough, to be honest,
Julien Moinil told the Brussels regional parliament, local media reported, arguing