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On social network X, they found someone who definitely lost from the results of today's US presidential election.”
The outlet gleefully posted a picture of Mr Zelensky with the line
Congratulations to Donald Trump on his impressive election victory,
said Mr Zelensky
Trump won. Go to bed, team.”
Putin’s leading woman propagandist Margarita Simonyan - head of broadcaster RT, and sanctioned by the US during the campaign for interfering in the US election - postedThis could take the form of withholding military support to encourage Ukraine to consider concessions, likely resulting in European leaders and Zelensky weighing the risk of diminished U.S. backing against the terms offered in negotiations,
Edgar Bellow, professor of geopolitics at NEOMA Business School in Reims, France, told Newsweek
The Democrats might not want Trump to succeed in Ukraine, so Biden's Ukrainian legacy won't be tainted,
he told NewsweekLet's wait and see if the new U.S. president can fulfill his election promises and overcome the powerful anti-Russian lobby of the 'deep state' which he planned to fight,
Mironov said in a statement to Newsweek on WednesdayTrump's victory could bring considerable setbacks for Ukraine's fight for freedom,
Svitlana Romanko, founder and director of Ukrainian group Razom We Stand, told NewsweekBefore sitting at the table, both parties also need to see that it is in their interests to negotiate rather than secure gains on the battlefield,
Alden addedHowever, the timing of any such negotiations needs to be considered,
he told NewsweekI think Zelensky must take advantage of Trump's expressed desire to end this war. Zelensky's team have to put their political preferences aside and start jointly brainstorming scenarios of a fair and just war resolution,
he addedTrump will do that if he really wants to earn the laurels of the ‘world’s greatest peacemaker’,
she added
While it might seem as if Trump and Putin's views on the war align, at the same time Trump is quite unpredictable and Moscow probably finds this difficult to deal with,
noted KuhrtTrump is accustomed to achieving what he wants by all possible means and is ready to exert any kind of pressure to reach his goals, meaning he could pressure Moscow by supplying Ukraine with all kinds of weapons it asks for,
said Filippenko, notingBiden could try to draw up an assistance package before leaving office, but whether Trump would have to stick with that is unlikely given the predominance of Republicans in both the House and the Senate,
she addedAssuming Trump carries out his pledge to end all defense assistance to Ukraine, then clearly his victory would be a disaster for Ukraine,
Kuhrt told The Moscow TimesMany people are rightly saying that Europe needs to quickly increase defense spending. But governments are…going to look at the way that economic discontent seems to have fueled a Trump victory and worry that spending on non-domestic issues will do the same here,
she added in a thread published WednesdayThis doesn’t mean that sanctions would be lifted or that Trump and Putin would be photographed shaking hands — that shouldn’t be expected,
Filippenko told The Moscow TimesInstead, we can expect that the process of mending bilateral relations will commence, which could not be imagined under Kamala Harris,
she addedTrump’s desire for a deal – and probably a quick one – does not bode well for sustained US support, especially with the current pressure on Ukraine.”
He added
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We have repeatedly said that the US is able to contribute to the end of this conflict. This cannot be done overnight, but … the US is capable of changing the trajectory of its foreign policy,
Peskov told a daily briefing of reporters