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We want to build dialogue not only with America, but with all countries, based on mutual respect and mutual benefit,
Peskov said
We understand that not everyone is happy with the resumption of Russian-American contacts. Some Western elites are still determined to maintain instability in the world. And these forces will try to disrupt or compromise the dialogue that has begun. We see this."
Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday
I wanted to have a sentence on security guarantees for Ukraine, and it's important that it's there...If we don't get security guarantees, we won't have a ceasefire, nothing will work, nothing."
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said on WednesdayAnd these forces will try to disrupt or compromise the dialogue that has begun,
Putin added, without offering evidence to support his claims
I think the Russians want to see the war end, I really do. But I think they have the cards a little bit, because they've taken a lot of territory. So they have the cards."
President Donald Trump told the BBC on February 19It is important that our current partners demonstrate pragmatism, a realistic view of things, and are moving away from many stereotypes, so-called rules, and the messianic ideological clichés of their predecessors, which, in fact, led to the crisis of the entire international relations system
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BRICS is about cooperation and a reaction to the hostile policies of the West,
Polyanskiy said
The rhetoric has changed for sure. There are a lot of very promising signals,
Dmitry Polyanskiy saidWhen people sit and talk, an agreement is always reachable,
he saidThis is important because only through diplomacy can you achieve something,
he saidWe want Ukraine to become a friendly neighbor, as it always was,
he saidWe are not interested in causing problems to Israel,
he saidThese territories have become part of the territory of Russia after there was the referendum at the end of 2022,
he said