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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,
The question is what symbolic benefits he (Putin) could gain from it."
There is both a shift in content and a shift in form,
We are moving from a militant pacifist pope to a diplomatic pope,
It would put it back on the global diplomatic scene after a period, under Francis, where it appeared sidelined on the Holy Land and Ukraine,
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,
I 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,
There 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,
The work is continuing at a quick pace, everybody is interested in doing it quickly.”
There is no concrete agreement about the next meetings,
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters They’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 Only Russia and Ukraine should be involved in talks to end the war between them
Putin went on for a very long time, probably half an hour, about the history of Russia going back to the eighth century,
When asked last year to explain his decision to invade Ukraine ... his interviewer, Tucker Carlson, later recalled It was a really bad experience to have this long debate with Putin,
Scholz recalled in an interview with TIME that spring It’s this messianic attitude,
On the Ukrainian side, a diplomat put the same frustration in starker terms ... the diplomat says of the U.S. approach to Ukraine under Trump We analysed Ukrainian legislation, and according to it, we understand that Zelenskyy’s powers as the legitimate leader of the country have expired,
said Russian lead negotiator Rodion Miroshnik on May 16, the day of the talks It is important that America remains engaged in the process of bringing peace closer. It is America that Russia fears, and it is American influence that can save many lives, if used as leverage to make Putin end the war,
Zelenskyy said in his Tuesday evening address There is a risk that agreements reached and signed in an illegitimate manner may be disavowed,
This rhetorical campaign is part of efforts to set conditions for Russia to withdraw from any future peace agreements at a time of Russia’s choosing,
wrote the Institute for the Study of War, a Washington-based think tank
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