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I am not happy with the Russian strikes on KYIV,
Trump wrote on his Truth Social media platform I didn't like last night, I wasn't happy with it,
Trump said in a separate press briefing We've issued a very explicit proposal to both the Russians and the Ukrainians, and it's time for them to either say 'yes' or for the United States to walk away from this process,
U.S. Vice President JD Vance said earlier in the week Russian President Vladimir Putin is receiving President Trump's envoy Steve Witkoff in the Kremlin,
Peskov was cited as saying As soon as the last half percent is liberated, the troops can stop where the news finds them,
Why shouldn’t Putin stop fighting, ... if the foreign policy preconditions for doing so have been created in the form of the new president of the United States?”
We are ready to reach a deal,
Sergey V. Lavrov, Russia’s foreign minister, said in an interview aired late Thursday by CBS News They’re holding gatherings, conferences, meetings in a restaurant, celebrating something, drinking vodka,
Mr. Putin said, an apparent reference to a Russian missile strike on a restaurant in central Ukraine on April 4 that killed nine children Breaking news coming into us via the Interfax news agency - that's the Russian news agency,
Halting the regular broadcast, she said ... she said I believe that Mr Witkoff has taken on the strategy of the Russian side. I think it is very dangerous, because he is consciously or unconsciously, I don’t know, spreading Russian narratives.”
This next few days is going to be very important. Meetings are taking place right now,
Trump told reporters on Thursday