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The position of Brussels — to support killing as long as it takes — is morally and politically unacceptable.”
He then condemned the EU’s stance, arguing We are ready to enhance our support for Ukraine … We share the goal to keep supporting Ukraine until a just, comprehensive and lasting peace is reached,
This declaration is a sad testament of bad Brusselian leadership,
Orbán said in a post on X referring to a statement published Wednesday by the so-called Weimar+ grouping — the EU, France, Germany, Poland, Italy, Spain and the U.K. — in support of Ukraine’s independence and territorial integrity as U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian leader Vladimir Putin gear up for negotiations on the country’s future I want to thank President Putin for his time and effort with respect to this call, and for the release, yesterday, of Marc Fogel, a wonderful man that I personally greeted last night at the White House,
Trump added of the release in his Truth Social post earlier Wednesday We agreed to work together, very closely, including visiting each other’s Nations,
Trump posted to Truth Social I believe this nation views Putin and Russia as a great competitor in the region, at times an adversary,
Leavitt said when asked how President Donald Trump views Russia and Putin He, like President Putin, wants to make PEACE,
The president, in his Truth following the phone call with Vladimir Putin, said that he has asked Secretary of State Rubio, the Director of the CIA John Ratcliffe, our national security advisor here at the White House, Michael Waltz and Steve Witkoff, to lead the negotiations,
We believe that this is an important signal to the world, to Russian leadership, that we stand together,
We've received this document today; we... will do everything so that our teams can really quickly agree and sign this document,
Today, we are very flexible with our partners in this regard. I believe it should be mutually beneficial. What is happening now is unfavourable for us, that Putin is seizing our territories and simply receiving valuable minerals for free."
We can give our partners, primarily American businesses, the opportunity to invest. We can extract, develop and process together. These are jobs and income for American companies, for Americans, Ukrainians, and Europeans. We are very open to this. But we need to talk about it in detail."
It was certainly a big news day on the Russia-Ukraine war front,
Leavitt said in an interview on "Rob Schmitt Tonight." In fact, we expect that he'll come here, and I'll go there, and we're going to meet also, probably in Saudi Arabia. The first time we'll meet in Saudi Arabia,
President Trump is a peacemaker, ... He's a dealmaker, and he has appointed an exceptional team of individuals who are highly qualified and have proven to be great dealmakers themselves to continue with these negotiations."
We ultimately expect to meet,
Trump told reporters in the Oval Office