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We don’t know how far apart they truly are,
he said, referring to Ukraine and Russia
I think the deeply insulting thing for many Europeans is to be disregarded,
Kristine Berzina, managing director for Geostrategy North at the German Marshall Fund, told DW
I think there is a very clear difference between the war, as seen by President Trump, as something which makes no sense, something which needs to be stopped as soon as possible, and the war as seen from Moscow, where it is an existential conflict, where a lot of crucial issues for Russia's security and very existence are at stake,
said BaevEurope needs to take more responsibility for strengthening the security in Europe,
Pavel Baev, a senior fellow at the Center on the United States and Europe at the Brookings Institute, told DW.jpg)
The ball is in the Russian's court,
Daniel Fried, an Atlantic Council fellow and former US Ambassador to Poland, told DWThere's all sorts of theories about [why the US is engaging with Russia], from Trump's businesses having interacted with Russian oligarchs and funding Russian money laundering, to Russia interfering in the 2016 election and helping Trump, to Trump having just an affinity for strong-man leaders like Putin,
Bergmann told DWI don't know why we would be wanting to strengthen our main enemy,
Bergmann saidPutin specifically, and Russians in general, are very good at complicating negotiations, throwing in curve balls, new conditions, making it complicated and obfuscating,
he saidUkraine wants their long term security,
he told reporters
There is no military solution to this conflict,
Rubio said
We all eagerly await the Russian response and urge them strongly to consider ending all hostilities,
Reuters quoted Rubio as saying during a stop in Ireland after US-Ukraine talks in Saudi Arabia
Ukraine is ready to accept this proposal—we see it as a positive step and are ready to take it,
Zelensky said
It is now for Russia to show its willingness to achieve peace."
European officials cautiously backed the announcement, but the European Union's top diplomat, Kaja Kallas, said in a statementRussia is advancing, and therefore it will be different with Russia,
Kosachev said in a post to messaging app TelegramRussian forces continue to make confirmed advances in Kursk Oblast and have likely begun attacking Sudzha,
the U.S.-based Institute for the Study of War (ISW) think tank said on TuesdayAny agreement ... Victory will be ours."
he said, addingI have no hope that the U.S.A. has not completely shifted to Russia’s side,
said Yulia Podkydysheva, a hospice worker reached by phone in Chernivtsi, in western UkraineI will only say that there is no better reward for such a crazy day than to learn, while already sitting on the plane, a short dry confirmation
that military aid had restarted, Gosha Tykhyi, a spokesman for Ukraine’s foreign minister, wrote on social media after talks with U.S. officials in Saudi ArabiaIn my opinion, it will be like before when they introduced the cease-fire,
said Oleksandr Kovinko, a soldier fighting in eastern UkraineIt is in these last hours of the endgame, when fatigue is already showing, that a way out of the impasse and even difficult compromises suddenly become possible,
he said