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Strong and unwavering US leadership is vital for the world and for a just peace."
The Ukrainian said
I would get [Putin] into a room. I’d get Zelensky into a room. Then I’d bring them together. And I’d have a deal worked out."
In September, he saidI don't think Trump wants to spend American taxpayers' money on Ukraine, but to allow Ukraine to borrow what it needs to defend itself,
Volker said
If you make it, say, $500 billion, a huge number, that should be enough to tell Putin he can't outspend this, he can't win this, ... and that could also point the way towards a settlement."
Volker saidTrump could mean anything for Ukraine—selling it for the sake of great power politics or doubling down on inflicting damage to Russia,
Orysia Lutsevych, deputy director of the Russia and Eurasia program at the Chatham House think tank, told NewsweekBut given his fascination with Putin, the risk is that the Kremlin can play the vanity card to its advantage. If Trump is convinced Ukraine is a problem to his ambition, it will be abandoned and will be presented as a European not an American problem,
she said
Now, when the situation in the theatre of military operations is not in the favour of the Kyiv regime, the West is faced with a choice - to continue financing it and destroying the Ukrainian population or to recognise the current realities and start negotiating,
Shoigu said
Trump will probably want to facilitate this, provided he is at the center of the entire process and can then claim his Nobel Peace Prize or make his mark in some other way,
a source close to the Foreign Ministry was quoted as saying
Until the inauguration, we will keep advancing [in Ukraine],
a Russian government official was quoted as saying in a VPost reportAs the Democrats have nothing to lose, they might make decisions that could complicate dialogue in the future. For example, they could authorize the use of American weapons for strikes deep into Russian territory,
a diplomatic source was quoted as saying in a Moscow Times reportAs soon as Trump takes office and forms his team, then we can agree to start consultations. It will be convenient for him to negotiate. Right now, there's no one to even come to Moscow for talks, no one to talk to,
added another Russian official told the publicationI don’t believe in major breakthroughs, and there is no great euphoria in my circle of contacts. But something interesting is definitely going to happen in the future."
A senior executive at a major state corporation statedThe administration plans to push forward … to put Ukraine in the strongest position possible,
a senior Biden administration official told the Reuters news agency on condition of anonymity in a report published on Thursday
That’s going to be a problem when you go forward with additional funding for Ukraine, which at some point is going to be necessary,
said Scott Anderson, a fellow in governance studies at the Brookings Institution
I suspect some of the biggest celebrations will have been in the Kremlin
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Weeping may remain in the night, but joy comes in the morning
Writing on messaging app Telegram, Russian foreign ministry spokesman Maria Zakharova saidThis is exactly the principle that can bring just peace in Ukraine closer.
The Ukrainian president addedJudging by the pre-election rhetoric, the Republican team is not going to throw more and more American taxpayer money into the furnace of the proxy war against Russia.
He said
We could use a combination of Trump’s unpredictability with his desire to be a winner and make that a strong formula for promoting a peace process in Ukraine,
Rasmussen said in an interview,
I don’t think he would like to be depicted [as] a loser,
Rasmussen said