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Make 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 afarIt’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 saidReports of 4,000 North Korean casualties in the past three months have not hampered Pyongyang's determination to fight. North Korean troops pulled back from the front lines in January, but they are now back after additional training. Combat units are becoming smaller to minimize exposure to Ukrainian drones. North Korean missiles used in the war are also becoming more accurate. North Korea is learning, and it is learning fast."
Khang Vu, visiting scholar in the Political Science Department at Boston College, wrote in an article for the Lowy Institute think tank Wednesday
I think people are going to be surprised at how many people, not only soldiers, have been killed in Ukraine."
He furtherIt's a very, very negative trend, but I have no influence over it,
said Havrylov, the former village head in Novopavlivka
It's painful to look at this, and painful to realise the front is now nearby,
said school director Yurii Bilyk, gesturing to the rubble at his badly damaged school buildingThis whole negotiation from the start seems very tilted in Russia’s favord it’s even a question whether it should be termed a negotiation or in some sense, a series of American capitulations,
said Nigel Gould-Davies, senior fellow for Eurasia and Russia at the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London and a former British ambassador to Belarus
Today I heard, well, we weren't invited. Well, you've been there for three years. You should have ended it three years. You should have never started it."
Speaking to reporters from his Mar-a-Lago estate, Trump saidA half-baked negotiator could have settled this years ago without the loss of much land, very little land, without the loss of any lives,
Trump said, echoing his frequent claim that he could have prevented the Russian invasion
No one is being sidelined here,
said US Secretary of State Marco RubioThe participants discussed a broad range of issues, including prospects for normalising bilateral relations. The sides agreed to appoint respective ambassadors as soon as possible, and to start consultations at the level of deputy foreign ministers to remove restrictions on activities of the diplomatic missions of the two countries."
The Russian Foreign Ministry in a press release on Russia-US consultations said
FM Sergey #Lavrov and Presidential Aide Yury #Ushakov held talks with Secretary of State @SecRubio, National Security Adviser @michaelgwaltz, and US Special Envoy to the Middle East @SteveWitkoff. The Sides agreed to establish #RussiaUS dialogue."
In a post on X, the Russian Foreign Ministry wroteWe want to end it. It's a senseless war. It should have never happened; it would have never happened if I were President."
Trump addedThe sides exchanged views on the situation surrounding Ukraine and reiterated their mutual commitment to settle the conflict. The Russian side emphasised the importance of eliminating the root causes of the conflict, creating proper conditions for achieving a lasting and enduring peace, and ensuring security and legitimate interests of all countries in the region. An agreement was reached to continue joint work in this area through special envoys to be appointed in the near future."
It added