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Just some breaking lines coming out of the Kremlin about this phone call. Trump and Putin discussed Ukraine and the two men have decided to stay in contact. There is an agreement between Russia and Ukraine to swap prisoners of war (POW) on either side. Vladimir Putin reaffirms commitment to peaceful resolution of the conflict."
You can’t trust anyone. Where did you get the idea that Trump trusts me and I fully trust him?"
In 2018, after the summit in Helsinki, Putin mocked the idea that Trump trusted him ... Putin told journalists Ukraine expressed readiness to accept the U.S. proposal to enact an immediate interim 30-day ceasefire to the Russia-Ukraine conflict. The ball is now in Russia's court,
Bruce said during the State Department's second briefing of Trump's second term We want to see if we can bring that war to an end. Maybe we can, maybe we can't, but I think we have a very good chance I'll be speaking to President Putin on Tuesday. A lot of work's been done over the weekend,
the US President told reporters on Sunday Partners know our red lines — that we do not recognize the occupied territories as the territories of the Russian Federation, and we do not recognize them,
Zelenskyy told journalists recently Everyone hopes (for peace)
The understanding around the table is that Russia can’t really be trusted.”
Kaja Kallas, the European Union’s foreign policy chief, said It’s not negotiable. We will never agree to any territorial concessions.”
Oleksandr Merezhko, chair of the country’s foreign affairs committee, said We must be robust, Britain must apply maximum pressure on the Kremlin
We can clearly see who wants peace and who wants war. Russia will want to take over the whole of Ukraine by other means, and preferably also neutralise half of Europe militarily. It will not succeed, but this does not mean that Putin will not try,
We will evaluate the success of the talks with Trump by the quality of the peace achieved,
the Polish foreign minister added We want to see if we can bring that war to an end,
the US president told reporters on Air Force One during a flight back to the Washington, DC, area from Florida on Sunday One person was wounded during the attack. The victim has now been taken to the hospital,
Babushkin wrote on social media There is also the proposed temporary ceasefire. Russia maintains that any such agreement must include security guarantees for its side, meaning it does not want Ukraine to use the opportunity to rearm, regroup and restart the conflict,
This is the largest nuclear facility in Europe, which came under Russian control early in the conflict in March 2022. Since then, it has been shut down, but it remains under the control of Russian forces and Russia’s state nuclear energy organisation, Rosatom,
We’ll be talking about land. A lot of land is a lot different than it was before the war, as you know. We’ll be talking about land, we’ll be talking about power plants, that’s a big question,
he said, as quoted by CNN We can talk about what is right or wrong but also have to talk about the reality of the situation on the ground,
The president is not tongue-tied and he always emphasises that he is not a politician and will not pretend to play all these political niceties,
I had somebody that didn't seem to want peace. Now he's agreed to peace,
The biggest thing they (Trump's team) are pissed about is that they (Ukraine) didn't announce an investigation into Joe Biden... that they didn't give him what he wanted,
Parnas, who later testified in Congress against Trump, said on a podcast after the White House clash