[At ... At the end of February] there may be [a meeting], or there may not be,
We explained that the deployment of troops from the countries that are NATO members, even if they are deployed under the EU or national flags, will not change anything and will certainly be unacceptable for us."
Russia wants to do something. They want to stop the barbarianism that's going on over there. Soldiers are being killed by thousands on a weekly basis. Apart from Russian and Ukrainian soldiers, a lot of Koreans have been killed. We want to end it,
Today I heard, ‘Oh, well, we weren’t invited.’ Well, you've been there for three years. You should have ended it three years…You should have never started it. You could have made a deal,
The situation is disastrous enough, to be honest,
The local police zone South now has to carry out the investigation with limited resources,
A meeting between Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump was discussed, but it is unlikely to take place next week,
When the government buys, say, a billion dollars’ worth of tanks, that’s addition to GDP of a billion dollars. Now, these tanks are burnt in Ukrainian fields ... It’s actually equivalent to the government just printing this billion dollars and handing it over to those people who work in the tank factory or their shareholders without producing anything,
So on paper, it looks like Russia is actually producing a lot of GDP, but a lot of those GDP are soldiers who are killed in Ukraine or wounded in Ukraine with their families getting cash, or weapons producers,
We don’t want a peace brokered behind the scenes without our involvement,
Our deputies will soon arrange a meeting to assess the need for removing these barriers,
The appearance of troops from NATO countries … under a foreign flag, the flag of the European Union or the national flag, is unacceptable,
The war is not about Ukraine and it won’t stop in Ukraine. Putin is coming to Europe and we can’t stop him forever.”
One phone call followed by one meeting is not sufficient to establish enduring peace. We must take action, and today we took an important step forward.”
We will fight until the last death. We have nothing to lose. We are not going anywhere.”
Even hearing the words British boots, before anything has happened, is a huge morale boost for my people.”
It proves you cannot trust Russia. Anybody who thinks they can is deluding themselves.”
Not the least of the problems is bank transfers, which they are trying to limit for us,
The first is probably the most urgent and certainly not the most difficult. This is to ensure the earliest possible appointment of Russian ambassadors to the United States and the United States to Russia. To remove the obstacles that for many years, primarily from the administration of [former US President Joe] Biden, have been primarily built on the direction of our diplomatic missions, seriously complicating their work,
We not only listened, but also heard each other,