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The attack took place in waves, from different directions, with drones entering the city at different altitudes – both very low and high,
the city administration said Strong and unwavering US leadership is vital for the world and for a just peace."
I would get [Putin] into a room. I’d get Zelensky into a room. Then I’d bring them together. And I’d have a deal worked out."
We can do training and other support but the barrel of the gun is going to be European. We are not sending American men and women to uphold peace in Ukraine. And we are not paying for it. Get the Poles, Germans, British and French to do it."
Quote of Trump’s team member I don't think Trump wants to spend American taxpayers' money on Ukraine, but to allow Ukraine to borrow what it needs to defend itself,
If you make it, say, $500 billion, a huge number, that should be enough to tell Putin he can't outspend this, he can't win this, ... and that could also point the way towards a settlement."
Trump could mean anything for Ukraine—selling it for the sake of great power politics or doubling down on inflicting damage to Russia,
Orysia Lutsevych, deputy director of the Russia and Eurasia program at the Chatham House think tank, told Newsweek But given his fascination with Putin, the risk is that the Kremlin can play the vanity card to its advantage. If Trump is convinced Ukraine is a problem to his ambition, it will be abandoned and will be presented as a European not an American problem,
Now, when the situation in the theatre of military operations is not in the favour of the Kyiv regime, the West is faced with a choice - to continue financing it and destroying the Ukrainian population or to recognise the current realities and start negotiating,
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,
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 - posted I think the Ukrainians have been incredibly brave and strong when standing up to Russia. But at the end of the day, what we're funding here is a stalemate war, and it needs to be brought to a conclusion,
You don't have to be a fan of Vladimir Putin to want the war to end,
I think there has to be some common sense here,
We’ll have to live in Trump’s world now. I am very skeptical that the war will end in 24 hours, as he promised. But we definitely won’t get bored.”
Tymofiy Mylovanov, president of the Kyiv School of Economics, said in a Facebook post I do not think that his presidency will be bad for Ukraine — maybe difficult, challenging, but not necessarily bad,
We rely on continued strong bipartisan support for Ukraine in the United States.”
But in a telling line, he added Trump is a pragmatic businessman” who “thinks in terms of costs and benefits,
We will live in Trump’s world, as, unfortunately, I predicted,
said Tymofiy Mylovanov, president of the Kyiv School of Economics and a former Ukrainian economy minister
