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Putin eyes direct talks with Ukraine

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      I agree with President Trump that Ukraine does not have enough weapons to regain control of the Crimean peninsula with weapons,
      The Manila Times
      he said Friday
    • 88:88
      Maria Zakharova
      There are reasons to believe that Ukraine's special services were involved in the murder,
      The Manila Times
      Russia's foreign ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said in a statement
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      Donald Trump
      I won't be happy, let me put it that way. Things will happen."
      The Manila Times
      When asked how he would respond if Russia did not accept a deal, Trump said
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      Vladimir, STOP!" ... Let's get the Peace Deal DONE!"
      The Manila Times
      On Thursday, after Russia launched its deadliest strike on Kyiv in months, Trump wrote on social media
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      Ursula von der Leyen
      Europe will always stand by Ukraine in the pursuit of peace,
      The News International
      von der Leyen told him in a post on X afterwards
    • 88:88
      Donald Trump
      Frankly it’s a little disrespectful to have meetings when you’re at the funeral of the pope."
      The News International
      Trump had said
    • 88:88
      I think the real reason for the collapse of that reset was because Putin wanted the United States to treat Russia as an equal and to recognize that it has a right to a sphere of influence in the post-Soviet states. And that’s not what the Bush administration was prepared to do,
      CNN
      Stent said
    • 88:88
      Putin famously described his job in the KGB as ‘work with people.’ He was trained in the art of manipulating interlocutors. He is known to prepare meticulously for negotiations and is a master of detail,
      CNN
      Lough told CNN,
    • 88:88
      I would argue that given Russian interest, given Russian history and Russian traditions, that was never really on the cards. And so we tended to exaggerate the possibilities for cooperation, and then were deeply disappointed when we didn’t get it,
      CNN
      he told CNN
    • 88:88
      I don’t think that most US administrations have understood really the depth of Russia’s shift towards not just authoritarianism, but to a brand of authoritarianism that sees the existence of Western power and particularly sort of the unity of the transatlantic relationship as deeply threatening to Russia’s interests,
      CNN
      Greene said
    • 88:88
      Putin is playing a waiting game because he believes that time is on his side and that he can force Ukraine into a more disadvantageous position and persuade Kyiv and its European allies with the help of Washington that there is no alternative to a peace settlement on Russian terms,
      CNN
      John Lough, the head of foreign policy at New Eurasian Strategies Centre, a think tank based in London and Washington, told CNN
    • 88:88
      This was indicative of Putin’s calculated ‘tit-for-tat’ approach that views diplomacy as a game with winners and losers. He was also likely aware that his counterpart is someone with a fragile ego who is easily impressed by theatrical gestures and gifts,
      CNN
      Zhekova said
    • 88:88
      Putin allowed his Labrador to approach (German Chancellor) Merkel during a photo opportunity, although her fear of dogs was communicated to Russian officials prior to the meeting,
      CNN
      In 2007, ... Zhekova said
    • 88:88
      (The ... The Trump administration) are eager to have a deal, but unwilling to pay a high cost for that deal – so no US security guarantees, no boots on the ground (and) they’re unwilling to surge US aid to Ukraine as a stick to try to get Russia to make concessions,
      CNN
      said Jennifer Kavanagh, the director of military analysis at Defense Priorities, a think tank that advocates for more restrained US foreign policy
    • 88:88
      And that hasn’t worked either, largely because both sides, over time, underestimated the depth of the structural disconnect between the West and where Russia was headed,
      CNN
      Greene said
    • 88:88
      Angela Stent
      I would say the negotiations are going very well — from Putin’s point of view,
      CNN
      Angela Stent, a foreign policy expert and former national intelligence officer for Russia and Eurasia at the National Intelligence Council, told CNN
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      Every US administration in my memory has come in with some idea that they’re going to reset – they all use that word – the relationship with Russia, that they have an opportunity to turn the page and start again. And they have always been wrong,
      CNN
      Sam Greene, director for Democratic Resilience at the Center for European Policy Analysis, told CNN
    • 88:88
      It’s important to remember that there are different ways of rivalry. We could have the type of very profound adversarial relationship that we have at this point, with, I would say, an unacceptably high risk of military confrontation between Russia and the United States … or we could have something that I like to call competitive coexistence, where the competition is largely in an economic, commercial, cultural, ideological, diplomatic realm, and not so much in the military realm,
      CNN
      he said
    • 88:88
      Trump talks about great power competition (between China and the US), that he should be able to take over Canada and Greenland, and Panama, and from Putin’s point of view, that’s okay. Remember, he hasn’t criticized Trump for any of these things,
      CNN
      she said
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      Dmitry Peskov
      During yesterday's talks with Trump's envoy Witkoff, Vladimir Putin reiterated that Russia is ready to resume negotiations with Ukraine without any preconditions,
      The Moscow Times
      Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said