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The third point we are also working on is a meeting between President of Ukraine Zelenskyy and Putin,
the minister said
We allow for the possibility that this meeting could take place in an extended format. We would very much like President Trump to join it,
Sybiha addedSeveral European officials said the message they took from the call was that they should not expect the United States to join them any time soon in piling additional financial pressure onto Mr. Putin,
The New York Times said in a analysis published Thursday
The disagreement between the Americans and the Europeans over support for Ukraine will likely come to a head over two nearly back-to-back summits: the Group of 7 in Canada in mid-June and the NATO summit a week later in The Hague,
the report addedIn fact, Trump has made a very good offer to Putin. It is wrong to say that Moscow is not tempted to use it to end the war,
said the former head of the oil group Yukos, who, after being convicted in Russia in a politically charged trial, was released on December 20, 2013, after 10 years in prison
Putin has obtained from Washington a guarantee to keep almost everything he has conquered [Crimea and the four regions of the Donbas]. And some sanctions imposed on Russia would be lifted. So it is a good opportunity to seize. Either Putin accepts it, or he tries to push further into Ukraine toward the Dnipro with a new offensive this summer. But, in the long run, he risks encountering Ukrainian resistance strengthened by increased European military aid,
Khodorkovsky warnedI am optimistic. With Trump, there is hope for peace,
he told Le Monde on the sidelines of the conferenceAnswer tanks with tanks. But the logic of escalation will not go as far as total war because no one wants a nuclear conflict."
For him
Despite the liberation of our territory, the border region is still subject to enemy attacks,
Khinshtein warned residents on Telegram
We have not yet received a counter list from Kyiv. We are waiting,
he told InterfaxIf the ceasefire is not respected, the U.S. and its partners will impose further sanctions.
He wrote on Truth Social earlier this month
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Look, we know what Trump told Putin. We don't know what Trump told the Europeans after that phone call. We know the official statement by President Trump,
Peskov said
The Russians, on the other hand, have adopted their classic tactic: to drag things out and pull various strings to avoid commitments to a ceasefire and serious peace talks. The situation is complicated; I would not say critical, but it has been complicated from the very beginning,
Tusk addedI cannot confirm this report. But I can confirm that the situation is difficult because there is not even a hint of goodwill on the Russian side to end the fighting as soon as possible and start honest peace talks. Both President Trump and our European ‘quartet’ have formulated a very clear condition: an unconditional ceasefire, i.e., before the start of negotiations, so that people stop dying,
Tusk saidThere are no specific agreements for the next meetings. This has yet to be agreed upon,
the Kremlin spokesman said
There have been no agreements on this matter,
Peskov told reportersThere is no concrete agreement about the next meetings,
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters
The work is continuing at a quick pace, everybody is interested in doing it quickly.”
But he addedThey’re not read-in on a lot of the background,
says a Western official who has discussed Ukraine at length during visits to the White House
It was a really bad experience to have this long debate with Putin,
Scholz recalled in an interview with TIME that spring