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Zelensky’s goal is to keep Ukrainian independence, while Putin’s goal is to destroy it - and there is no room for compromise,
said Yuri Felshtinsky, co-author of Blowing up Russia with former FSB officer Alexander Litvinenko
Russia has become more effective at targeting UAV pilots by speeding up information-sharing,
said WhitingRussia cannot sustain operations indefinitely,
he saidZelensky never had Trump in his corner as a full-fledged ally."
Vuk Vuksanovic, an associate at the London School of Economics think tank LSE Ideas, told Newsweek
What the president is trying to do is end…a bloody, costly war that neither side can win,
Secretary of State Marco Rubio to U.S lawmakers Tuesday ... adding PutinAs the killing continues, he may change course again,
he added
Russia and Ukraine will immediately start negotiations towards a ceasefire, and, more importantly, bring an END to the war,
Trump wrote on his Truth Social network
The Ukrainian regime and European leaders are shocked by the talks, they consider them a disaster for Ukraine. They think that Trump agreed with Putin on almost everything,
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Putin essentially uses Trump just to create a picture that Putin or Russia are ready to negotiate,
Anton Shekhovtsov, head of the Centre for Democratic Integrity, a Vienna-based think tank, told Al JazeeraThey will need to be trained at least a little so that they don’t die that quickly, and so by the end of June, [Moscow] may amass a new resource,
he told Al JazeeraHe wanted everyone [in the West] to step aside from Ukraine, so that there are no arms supplies, and then he could carry out yet another imperial takeover” of Ukrainian territories
he concludedThe talks won’t be talks because Moscow doesn’t want real talks with Kyiv,
Boris Bondarev told Al JazeeraApparently, Putin succeeded in nullifying a very disadvantageous initiative by Zelenskyy to immediately start a 30 days-long ceasefire,
he told Al Jazeera
These were very successful talks. They may result in Ukrainian regime’s forced acceptance of Russia’s conditions, and thus peace will be reached,
Moscow-based analyst Sergey Markov wrote on Telegram on MondayI don’t see what Putin can talk with Zelenskyy about, [as] Putin doesn’t consider Zelenskyy a person worthy of communication,
he added
Ukraine is but a tool, a proxy, a satellite that doesn’t decide a thing by itself.”
To PutinThis is an imitation so that someone in the West thinks that the peace process has begun, and that’s why there’s no need to help Ukraine, to pressure Putin and to impose new sanctions,
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Nobody is interested in dragging out this process,
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said, when asked about when the memorandum could be expected
We have made clear again and again that we simply expect one thing from Russia now: namely, a ceasefire, unconditional and immediate,
German Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul said in announcing the sanctions
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Putin has never changed his position,
Estonian Defense Minister Hanno Pevkur said in Brussels