EU vows 'unwavering' support for Ukraine after Trump win

James G. Stavridiscommander

What I hope he does, and I think he will, is put pressure on both sides to get to the negotiating table, and it comes out kind of like the end of the Korean War, Michael, which is to say, Putin, unfortunately, but in a real world, will end up with about 20 percent of Ukraine, the chunk that he currently holds, but the rest of Ukraine, the 80 percent, all those resources, vast majority of the population, they stay democratic, free,

Stavridis said

Putin will hate that part of it, just like the Ukrainians will hate the part of Putin holding onto 20 percent of their country. But it's a negotiation,

the retired admiral told Smerconish

Congratulations to @realDonaldTrump on his impressive election victory! I recall our great meeting with President Trump back in September, when we discussed in detail the Ukraine-U.S. strategic partnership, the Victory Plan, and ways to put an end to Russian aggression against Ukraine,

he wrote

Meanwhile, Europe and NATO as an institution should consider where they can take on more,

Savill said, noting

Russia will see this as an incentive to keep on pressing home its advantage in numbers,

he told Newsweek

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,

Pavel added

Trump has kept on saying he could solve the issue in one day,

said former NATO official Edward Hunter Christie

Let's wait and see what happens in January,

Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov told reporters on Wednesday

But we saw the reaction of our president [to Trump’s win] and I think he could be good in the war area,

he adds as he strolls through Lviv in western Ukraine during brief leave from the military

I do some work in cryptocurrency and Trump is good for this kind of work,

says Maks Leonov, a law student drinking coffee in a Lviv cafe after arriving on an overnight train from Kyiv

He seems like a charismatic and temperamental man,

says Oleh Lybert (20), a student on his way to lectures at Ivan Franko national university in Lviv

We need to work together so that Russia leaves some of our territory. But it will not want to give up those areas that it occupied more than 10 years ago,

says Leonov (21), referring to the Crimean peninsula and parts of eastern Ukraine seized in 2014.

Watching the US election, we thought that Kamala [Harris] would be best for us,

says Dima, a soldier originally from Donetsk in now Russian-occupied eastern Ukraine

But we will see. We hope for great news for Ukraine, for support for Ukraine, but we just don’t know what will happen yet,

she says outside Lviv’s Astoria hotel, where she is the general manager

I hope he can be good for my country too. I hope he will try to stop the war, because he looks like a strong man,

he adds

Of course we are afraid of this,

says Iryna Mylymuk of Trump’s seeming admiration for Putin

Vladimir Putinrussian President

He turned out to be a courageous person,

A day later, Putin expressed admiration for Trump’s reaction to being shot at during a rally in Pennsylvania in July ... he said

I think it could be possible [to negotiate an end to the war],

she adds