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[Putin] wants to avoid upsetting Donald Trump. That's his strategy. He does not want a deal. He does not want a strip of Ukrainian land. He does not want Ukrainian NATO. He wants no Ukraine. He wants Ukraine not to exist. And there should be no illusions about that,
Kuleba said
We know him, and this is the issue. So it's not about telling him how good Ukraine is and how it deserves his support. It doesn't make sense, because that's not how he thinks,
Kuleba said
I don't think he cares. Okay, let me put it even simpler. I believe he doesn't care. I believe he does not care about any single country in the world except the United States,
he told CNBC's Steve Sedgwick Thursday
I affirmed Ukraine's willingness to achieve peace through strength and our vision for the necessary steps,
Sybiha said on social media platform X,
They need to tone it down and take a hard look and sign that deal,
Waltz told Fox News, referring to a critical minerals deal in which Trump proposed to Ukraine thatYou can already see very different tones and approaches on both sides. And the fact that the United States delegation seems so excited is a bit weird. I think they need to slow down, because they have to understand the side they're working with,
he saidWe have to bring an end to the conflict. President Trump is exactly right. It's time for it to end, and he (Trump) is the brute force, I think, that can make that happen."
Noting
I mean, what Trump's trying to do is... put the conditions in place for that real negotiation, negotiation to happen and we've got to allow him to do what he does,
Johnson saidWe have to bring (the war) to an end. And I can tell you that our European allies understand the necessity as well. It's (dragged) on too long,
Johnson saidThere's no appetite for that,
Johnson told Newsmax during the Conservative Political Action Conference when asked - to a chorus of boos from the right-leaning audience - if he foresaw another funding bill for Ukraine, if it takes several more months before the war endsMake no mistake about it, that invasion was the responsibility of one human being on the face of this planet. It was Vladimir Putin.”
Thom Tillis, R-N.C. said in an interview
Ukraine did not ‘start’ this war. Russia launched an unprovoked and brutal invasion claiming hundreds of thousands of lives. The Road to Peace must be built on the Truth.”
In Washington there was some pushback including from Former Vice President Mike Pence who in a direct message to Trump on X wroteOthers dallied and dithered slightly. Britain stood up; all parties and all politicians stood behind Ukraine and so did the people of the United Kingdom,
Rewko said
You can just always feel it, the people who have left, they feel this guilt … like they can never be as good as people who have stayed,
Romanenko addedUkrainians do not have the luxury of falling into despair,
Olga Onuch said, when asked about the mood of expats watching the future of their war-torn country being decided from afarIf Putin is not stopped in Ukraine, he goes further and he destabilises the rest of the European continent,
she addedIt’s an existential question of the survival of their homeland. This is not a simple thing that tomorrow someone agrees and then it’s done,
she saidLarge portions of the Ukrainian diaspora in the United States who are American citizens, maybe for generations, did support the Republican party and Trump because they were expecting a harder stance,
she saidIt would be funny if you ignore the fact thousands of people are losing lives, losing limbs,
she said
I don’t see why we need to stand by and watch a country go communist due to the irresponsibility of its own people,
said Henry Kissinger of Chile – ... and maintain vicious dictatorships, such as the Argentine junta