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Peace won’t be easy, but we must reject the trap of making a false choice. It is possible to end the war for Ukraine, preserve our moral clarity by holding Russia accountable and advance America’s long-term national interests in the process. This is a Ronald Reagan moment, and the stakes for all of us are too high to waver in our resolve."
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This history makes clear that America has a moral obligation to continue providing aid to Ukraine until Russia commits to fair and just peace negotiations. That means including Ukraine in the conversation."
Quote from BaconIf Ukraine loses, the resulting refugee flows and instability will disrupt trade, increase energy prices, force American consumers to spend more and constrain US economic growth
Quote from BaconWe have modernized [the] basic military training course and increased its duration to 1.5 months, and also introduced a mandatory adaptive period for new recruits to combat brigades. And this is giving positive results — this month we recorded a decrease in losses compared to the previous ones,
Syrskyi said
According to our intelligence, Russia is preparing for new offensives in Sumy, Kharkiv, and Zaporizhzhia regions,
Zelenskyy said last weekThey are dragging out negotiations and trying to drag the U.S. into endless, meaningless discussions about fake conditions to buy time and then try to seize even more land. Putin wants to negotiate territory from a stronger position. He only thinks about war. So, our job — all of us — is defense in the broadest sense of the word,
he addedI think Trump wants so much a deal with Putin that he will not immediately go in the other direction and put Russia under pressure,
said Stefan Meister, a Russia expert at the German Council on Foreign Relations in Berlin
He’s trying to back out of the rare earth deal and if he does that he’s got some problems, big, big problems,
Mr. Trump told reporters on Sunday on Air Force OneIt is an illusion from Trump’s camp that Putin will supply what they want,
Mr. Meister said
There are reasons to believe that we will finish them off,
Mr. Putin said during a visit to a nuclear-powered submarine in MurmanskThe geography and brutality of Russian strikes, not just occasionally, but every day and night, show that Putin couldn’t care less about diplomacy,
Mr. Zelensky said on Sunday nightIf Russia and I are unable to make a deal on stopping the bloodshed in Ukraine, and if I think it was Russia’s fault — which it might not be — but if I think it was Russia’s fault, I am going to put secondary tariffs on oil, on all oil coming out of Russia,
Mr. Trump said
Don’t worry about how we found out. Just trust that when you shoot, it will hit it, and you’ll like the results, and if you don’t like the results, tell us, we’ll make it better.”
US General Christopher Donahue would say
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There is a direct threat of the use, under certain circumstances, of tactical nuclear weapons by the Russian Armed Forces."
General Valery Zaluzhnyi, formerly Ukraine's top soldier who is now the country's ambassador to the U.K., said in remarks published by Ukrainian media
I was thinking, the future of Ukraine is in the hands of Ukraine’s army, and that’s why I have to be part of the professional community, not just a volunteer,
she told Al Jazeera
We were discussing their future professions, and we came up with the suggestion that besides a civilian profession everyone should choose for themselves, they also need to have some military skills, depending on their talents and their interest,
Orobets saidIn 2014 … women who wanted to take combat positions as snipers and [operating] grenade launchers could not officially hold these positions, so they were put down as cooks and medics but were actually doing the combat role,
said Kravchuk, the parliamentarianThat was not just opening new opportunities for women, but naming them by … posts they were actually fulfilling,
said OrobetsWe fight against our children being deported to Russia and being raised as Russians, and we fight against our women being raped and killed. And of course, against everyone being killed,
said Zarembo, referring respectively to Ukrainian allegations of the forcible transfer of children to Russia without familial consent and of Moscow’s forces committing sexual assault and other war crimes
We don’t have compulsory conscription for women. All joined voluntarily for different reasons,
parliamentarian Yevheniia Kravchuk told Al Jazeera