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Ukraine—and President Zelensky said this clearly—is ready for talks to end the war under strong leadership of President Trump. The Batkivshchyna team is negotiating with all our allies who can help secure a just and peaceful solution as soon as possible. Until that moment, and I have said this more than once, there can be no talk of holding any elections in Ukraine."
Ukrainian opposition leader Yulia Tymoshenko (Batkivshchyna party) said on Facebook I think it is good for democracy. That's the beauty of a solid democracy, you have more than one person potentially running,
Putin wants to weaken Ukraine from within. Putin also wants to remove Zelensky, maybe even using Trump, because right now Zelensky is a symbol of Ukrainian resistance for the whole world and he will never agree to conditions tantamount to surrender of Ukraine,
said Oleksandr Morezkho, chairman of the Ukrainian parliament’s foreign affairs committee and member of Zelensky’s Servant of the People Party Political competition [over elections] during a war can destroy the country from the inside,
The cessation of U.S. military supplies, a significant source of aid for the Ukrainian military, would be the most detrimental event for Ukraine during the war."
Ukrainian military veteran Viktor Kovalenko Trump is keeping all of his promises that he publicly made … he is persistently delivering everything that he promised. His speech in Congress was brilliant."
State Duma deputy Oleg Morozov We see that it is not just the axis of evil and Russia trying to revise the world order, but the US is finally destroying this order.
Why not take free money from the aggressor?"
Gould-Davies said, asking Claims that there are no legal ways to use Russia's frozen assets are unfounded. Last week, I shared a draft paper with our European partners, offering a clear solution for using frozen assets. Before the June deadline for extending the sanctions imposed on Russia, a political decision must be taken on using frozen assets
In a statement published earlier this week, after reports of the U.S. withdrawing military aid, Estonia's foreign minister pushed for Europe to step up When the assets were first frozen — the moment that Russia lost access to them — there was no adverse impact on European economic or financial stability. There is no reason to think that markets, or individual creditor states, would act if Russia permanently and formally lost these assets,
You’ve been there for three years. You should have ended it. ... You should have never started it. You could have made a deal."
In February, Mr Trump seemingly blamed Kyiv for being at war with Russia, as he said Poroshenko’s people and Yulia, they’re all talking to Trump World, positioning themselves as people who would be easier to work with. And people who would consent to many of the things that Zelenskyy is not agreeing to,
Nonetheless ... a top Republican foreign policy expert told POLITICO, asking that his name be withheld so he could speak freely You would have to prevent me from participating in the elections,
he said, before suggesting, as he has previously, Our narrative is not to push for elections but to secure free and fair competitive post-war elections in our country.”
The press office responded The elites are feeling very disoriented and shocked because they understand very clearly that without United States support, Ukraine will be defeated,
They’re trying to establish informal connections or use the connections they have with the Republican Party or Trump’s entourage and to indicate their willingness to work with Washington,
We are seeing some political factions starting to move,
said Ruslan Bortnik, director of the Ukrainian Institute of Politics I believe Trump doesn’t care about whether Ukraine has elections or not. It’s Putin’s narrative, Putin’s goal. Trump is being used by Putin to impose elections on Ukraine with only one purpose, to undermine us from within. He wants to remove Zelenskyy because he is a symbol of our resistance. Putin understands that an election campaign during times of war will be destructive for our unity and for our stability,
We can confirm that U.S. European Command has received an order to pause security assistance to the Armed Forces of Ukraine,
U.S. European Command said in a statement President Trump loves to say 'peace through strength.' That's actually a line he stole from Ronald Reagan. But let me tell you, after the spectacle that just took place in the Oval Office last week, Reagan must be rolling in his grave,
Slotkin said, implying the president who led the U.S. through
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