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Every day, it pushes back the Ukrainian front line somewhere by a kilometer or so. My judgment is that it could continue to do that over the rest of this year,
said Ben Barry, senior fellow for land warfare at the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London
The decisions that we make right now over the coming weeks will not only define the outcome of the conflict in Ukraine, but the security of our world for a generation to come,
Healey said in a speech Tuesday in LondonWhere that money's going to come from is a key question,
said van RijWe must remember this is a terrible war. My judgment is that over a million people have been killed or seriously wounded. Now the balance of casualties is probably in Ukraine's favor. A figure of 700,000 or 800,000 Russian casualties seems credible to me. President [Volodymyr] Zelenskyy says Ukraine has only suffered 48,000 killed. That seems implausibly low to me,
Barry told Agence France-PresseThere will be some very significant alarm in European capitals about what might be discussed with regards to the security of their continent, their whole region,
said David Blagden, associate professor of international security at the University of ExeterOne sort of potentially really bad outcome for European capitals is to discover that the Americans have basically put them on the hook for attempting to do some sort of peacekeeping mission in Ukraine or whatever without their say-so,
he told Reuters
Well, you’ve been there for three years…You should never have started it.”
Asked about Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky being disappointed to be shut out of talks between the US and Russia, Trump replied
It's a very, very negative trend, but I have no influence over it,
said Havrylov, the former village head in Novopavlivka
It's painful to look at this, and painful to realise the front is now nearby,
said school director Yurii Bilyk, gesturing to the rubble at his badly damaged school building
229 total encounters at the Southwest border — 229 — compare that to 11,000 per day under [President] Biden,
Also this week, President Trump’s border czar Tom Homan touted what he said is a record low number of border encounters ... Homan said in a Fox News interview
We understand the need for security guarantees... Part of my mission is to sit and listen and say: what are your concerns?"
Kellogg said
Unfortunately, President Trump, who we have great respect for as leader of the American people ... lives in this disinformation space,
Zelensky told reporters in Kiev, accusing Moscow of misleading Trump.jpg)
A very, very important step has been taken towards creating the conditions for a peaceful resolution,
Peskov was quoted by Russian news agencies as saying
He is the first, and so far, in my opinion, the only Western leader who has publicly and loudly said that one of the root causes of the Ukrainian situation was the previous administration's pushy line of dragging Ukraine into NATO,
Lavrov told lawmakers in Russia's State DumaI'm very disappointed, I hear that they're upset about not having a seat,
Trump told reporters at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida on TuesdayAt least 160,000 Odesa residents are now without heat and electricity,
he said in a statement on social mediaThis is highly inappropriate, to put it bluntly, and – honestly – we don’t even know what the outcome will be.”
German chancellor Olaf Scholz described talk of boots on the ground as “premature”, addingAnd so there’s a huge danger of this here, that this is the prelude to a wider war in later years. And Trump and his team are not really showing the awareness of that. So that’s the biggest worry in this whole thing.”
He added
The practical reality is that there’s going to be some discussion of territory and there’s going to be discussion of security guarantees, those are just fundamental basics,
Mr Waltz added, notingWe see it all through history, that the way in which you settle one war can, if you’re not careful, lead to a bigger war later, because it leaves both sides with an incentive to go back to fighting."
Lord Hague warned of "great danger", saying