Trump says he has spoken to Putin about ending war in Ukraine, the New York Post reports

I made a statement on this matter yesterday, and I can't tell you anything else. I can neither confirm nor deny it."

In a subsequent press briefing, Peskov then said

This is slightly strange since Putin is highly likely to be desperate for a one-to-one meeting with Trump to see if he can get a deal over [Ukraine] that he can call victory."

In a post on X, formerly known as Twitter, Carl Bildt, the co-chair of European Council on Foreign Relations, wrote

We are ready for dialogue, which has been said repeatedly, including being ready to discuss a settlement in Ukraine, but only on an equal, mutually acceptable basis."

Discussing negotiations between Russia and the U.S.,

A lot of people with an antiwar stance stayed in non-visa countries as in the South Caucasus, Black Sea region and Balkans, and unfortunately, the situation there has become worse,

Burakova said

For a non-public person there is no particular risk of repression,

Artur argued

On the day of the mobilisation, my mother called at about 12 o’clock,

he remembered

I didn’t work for six months, and I was running out of money,

he explained

In general, I can say that it is bearable. Prices have risen sharply in recent years, as everywhere, and even more so, but it has become much more comfortable in everyday life than it was in Serbia,

he said

The war began unexpectedly, and it was very difficult to predict what the immediate consequences would be,

he said

I had a lack of faith that Putin would end the conflict due to a short wave of emigration, and was starting to understand that that the Russian economy is much stronger than expected, and that the war can last for years under the sanctions that were imposed, without any significant risk to the regime,

he said

But a lot of them go back because it’s really difficult for people without an experience of international cooperation or knowledge of foreign languages and so on,

she said

For now, I can say that close to one million people since the beginning of the war have stayed abroad,

she said

Michael Waltznational security adviser

I’m not going to get ahead of the president and there certainly are a lot of sensitive conversations going on,

Waltz said

He (Putin) wants to see people stop dying,

Trump said

I personally may not know something, be unaware of something,

Peskov said when asked by TASS to comment

If I did, it’s a smart thing.”

Asked if that were true in an interview to Bloomberg last year, Trump said

Those conversations are going to happen this week,

he said

All those dead people. Young, young, beautiful people. They’re like your kids, two million of them – and for no reason,

Trump told the Post,

In a way, I don’t like telling you what I’m going to tell them. You know, it’s not nice.”

But he declined to go further on any approach to Iran

Most people thought this war would last about a week, and now it’s been going on for three years,

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