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I think we need to take the heat down from what has become a very heated conversation in public over recent days
Speaking on the BBC Radio 4 Today programme, the culture secretary said
I think Vladimir Putin started the war,
Mr Kennedy said
The prime minister expressed his support for President Zelensky as Ukraine's democratically elected leader and said that it was perfectly reasonable to suspend elections during wartime as the UK did during World War II,
the statement addedWe saw this disinformation. We understand it comes from Russia.”
Mr Zelenskiy later said of the US president’s comments
Think of it, a modestly successful comedian, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, talked the United States of America into spending $350 Billion Dollars, to go into a War that couldn't be won, that never had to start, but a War that he, without the US and 'TRUMP,' will never be able to settle,
Trump wrote
I rate them highly, there is a result, ... In my opinion, we made the first step to restore work in various areas of mutual interests'
Putin said at a drone factory in Saint Petersburg, addingI love Ukraine, but Zelenskyy has done a terrible job, his Country is shattered, and MILLIONS have unnecessarily died – And so it continues...
he postedI don't think [Putin] has any interest in peace whatsoever, he's still building up his military, he's upscaled his defence manufacturing and he's just sitting back letting this all unfold,
he told Sky NewsBiden never tried, Europe has failed to bring Peace, and Zelenskyy probably wants to keep the 'gravy train' going.
He claimedLook, we all want a victory, and we want Trump to win, and we want Ukraine to win, all of us to succeed,
he saidTrump and Putin are trying to bully Zelensky into having an election in order to install a pro-Moscow president.”
A former head of the British Army, Lord Dannatt, warned
He refuses to have elections, is very low in Ukrainian polls, and the only thing he was good at was playing Biden 'like a fiddle',
Mr Trump saidYes, we are working on post-war elections and want to have all the decisions in advance to protect our democracy from the Russians and internal challenges. But they need security and guarantees,
said Olga Ajvazovska, the top election watchdog in Ukraine
Trump’s logic is based on Russian propaganda. And the fact that the U.S. president is relaying this is anti-moral and anti-democratic,
Ukrainian soldier Vitalii Ovcharenko said
Ukraine is a sovereign state! Volodymyr Zelenskyy is the President of Ukraine. Legitimate until another is elected. Only Ukrainians can decide when and under what conditions they should change their government. Today, there are no such conditions,
said Yulia Tymoshenko, former prime minister of Ukraine and leader of the mildly oppositional Motherland faction in the Ukrainian parliament, in a statement Wednesday
Yes, we heard completely unacceptable statements by the U.S. leader about who started the war; about resolving the “conflict in Ukraine” by completely satisfying Putin’s “wishes”; about de facto potentially forcing Ukraine to surrender everything we have been fighting for for 11 years against aggressive dictatorial Russia,
Klympush-Tsintsadze saidNo lying creature, neither in Moscow, nor in Washington, nor anywhere, has the right to open his mouth against him,
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In such a difficult time, we, the Ukrainian people, must stand by our leader, who makes no concessions. Just like all of us,
Filashkin said in a statementEurope as a whole has clearly overtaken the U.S. in terms of Ukraine aid. In total, Europe has allocated €70 billion ($72.2 billion) in financial and humanitarian aid as well as €62 billion in military aid. This compares to €64 billion in military aid from the U.S. as well as €50 billion in financial and humanitarian allocations,
the study published last week reads
We may like Zelenskyy, or we may not, we may scold him, or we may praise him, we may condemn his actions, or we may applaud them … because he is OUR President,
Borys Filatov, mayor of the industrial city of Dnipro, wrote in a social media post