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Russia will only end combat operations when negotiations end in a way that satisfies Russia".
The Russian state TV channel summarised Lavrov's statements
The most powerful leverage Trump has on Ukraine is to threaten non-delivery of weapons. We have, in my view, six months before we would really start to feel the lack of weapons on the front line.”
Former Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba told POLITICO
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We recognise it will be challenging to get an agreement, but the time for Russia and Ukraine to make difficult choices and end the fighting is now."
Quote from SheaToday we mark three years of Russian barbaric invasion of Ukraine and unprecedented of a large-scale war that [Vladimir] Putin unleashed on the European continent,
Serhiy Ivanchov, the consulate general of Ukraine in New York, told the crowd
Unfortunately, the Russian unprovoked war continues and Ukraine still needs international support more than ever,
Ivanchov saidWe have gathered to remember a very solemn day that many of us will never be able to wrench from our hearts, hearts that many of us will never be able to put together,
Andrij Dobriansky, director of communications and media for the Ukrainian Congress Committee of America saidI’m very proud of my country that we have withstood for three years,
said Wilson, who moved to New York 10 years agoMr President, I voted three times for you. I am a Republican, but Mr President, Putin is the dictator, not Zelenskyy. Russia started the war, not Ukraine,
he told the crowdThe evening of February 23 I was going about my usual chores when I glanced at the television,
said Taran, who moved to New York eight years agoAnd so it began, ... the war that upended millions of lives in a matter of hours, Friday morning, and the war that we as Ukrainian Americans have been fighting in our own way ever since”.
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From the perspective of frontline countries, it may seem like nobody else will understand these dangers until their parliaments' windows are blown in by a T-72. By that time, I think it will probably be too late to negotiate a joint EU defense budget."
Indeed, the former Lithuanian Foreign Minister Gabrielius Landsbergis said
It was at God’s will that this fate fell upon our shoulders to carry out such a challenging but honorable mission of defending Russia,
Putin told soldiers after a Kremlin ceremony where he awarded them state decorations
There is a clear parallel between the procession of leaders heading to Trump’s court in Washington to try to cajole him and the period at the end of 2021, beginning of 2022 when the same process was happening to try to convince Putin to not invade Ukraine,
Giles said
European countries are hamstrung by their inability to exert military power, the only currency that holds any sway in deterring Russia and the US,
Giles saidAfter everything that they have suffered, after everything that they have fought for, there could be no discussion about Ukraine without Ukraine, and the people of Ukraine must have a long-term secure future.”
Starmer told the Scottish Labour Party conference in Glasgow on Sunday
No decisions about Ukraine without Ukraine. … Europe must have a seat at the table when decisions about Europe are being made,
Zelenskyy said on February 15 at the Munich Security ConferenceWe are living a defining moment for Ukraine and European security,
he wrote on social mediaI’m much sadder about not being able to go to the places of my childhood,
Mykola told Al JazeeraRussia’s war against Ukraine began in 2014, with the annexation of Crimea and military aggression in eastern Ukraine. Yet it wasn’t until 2022 that the global community started calling it what it truly is: Russia’s war against Ukraine, rather than framing it as a “Ukrainian crisis,” as had been the norm for the preceding eight years. This mischaracterisation laid the groundwork for the war’s current scale.”
Then, she told US representatives and senatorsPoor thing, she was born during a war and died during a war,
Olha said