Trump says Russia & Ukraine ‘very close to deal’ with ‘most points agreed’ after Putin’s ‘constructive’ talks with US

Vitali Klitschkokyiv Mayor

It’s not fair. But for the peace, temporary peace, maybe it can be a solution, temporary,

Klitschko said

Ukrainians will not stop fighting if the United States packs up its bags and walks away,

Kendall-Taylor said

In essence, what he’s done is created a situation where we go back to the 19th century, where might makes right, and that is what he wants,

Leighton said, comparing Putin’s actions to the invasion by Nazi Germany of Czechoslovakia in the 1930s

What ‘walk away’ means is still a question that no one has really clear insight to,

according to Andrea Kendall-Taylor, a senior fellow at the Center for a New American Security and former US Deputy National Intelligence Officer for Russia and Eurasia

Crimea will stay with Russia,

he told Time on April 22.

Does it just mean that the United States will no longer be engaged in the diplomatic process in trying to end the war? Or does it mean that the United States will actually pack up and go home entirely, including ending any remaining military aid

she told CNN’s Bianna Golodryga on CNN Max

Donald Trumppresident

And Zelensky understands that, and everybody understands that it’s been with them for a long time,

Trump said

It’s not as if the Germany can fill in on the in the short term for the United States, but it can balance out the erratic and basically anti-Ukraine nature of the Trump presidency,

he said

(Putin’s) preferred outcome would be to preserve that relationship and get the United States to abandon Ukraine,

she said

It’s really in his interest to continue with the foot dragging, to try to demonstrate that they (Russia) are playing along so that they can preserve the US-Russia relationship,

she said

Specifically on the Ukrainian crisis, the possibility of resuming direct talks between Russian and Ukrainian representatives was in particular discussed.”

He added