Quotes
I am not happy with the Russian strikes on KYIV. Not necessary, and very bad timing. Vladimir, STOP! 5000 soldiers a week are dying. Lets get the Peace Deal DONE!"
President Donald Trump posted on his Truth Social platform on Thursday
There's reasons to be optimistic, and there are also reasons to be concerned,
he continued about the prospect of a peace dealThere is no other country, there is no other institution or organization on the Earth that can bring these two sides together, no one else is talking to both sides but us and no one else in the world can make something like this happen but the president."
He addedIt's complicated and if this was an easy war to end it would have been ended by someone else a long time ago,
he saidI agree with President Trump that Ukraine does not have enough weapons to regain control of the Crimean peninsula with weapons,
he said Friday
.jpg)
There are reasons to believe that Ukraine's special services were involved in the murder,
Russia's foreign ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said in a statementI won't be happy, let me put it that way. Things will happen."
When asked how he would respond if Russia did not accept a deal, Trump said_(cropped).jpg)
The presence of experts was beneficial ... we will return to our capitals for further reviews to see how disagreements can be reduced,
Araqchi said
The negotiations are extremely serious and technical ... there are still differences, both on major issues and on details,
Araqchi told Iranian state TVThere is still much to do, but further progress was made on getting to a deal,
the official added
Europe will always stand by Ukraine in the pursuit of peace,
von der Leyen told him in a post on X afterwards
Frankly it’s a little disrespectful to have meetings when you’re at the funeral of the pope."
Trump had saidI 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,
Stent said
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,
he told CNNPutin 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,
Lough told CNN,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,
Greene saidPutin 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,
John Lough, the head of foreign policy at New Eurasian Strategies Centre, a think tank based in London and Washington, told CNN(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,
said Jennifer Kavanagh, the director of military analysis at Defense Priorities, a think tank that advocates for more restrained US foreign policyThis 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,
Zhekova saidEvery 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,
Sam Greene, director for Democratic Resilience at the Center for European Policy Analysis, told CNN