[Video] - Zelensky’s Admission Of Defeat : Says ‘I Don’t Want To Prolong War With Russia’

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[Rogue Trader]

Ukraine just used US supplied ATACMS rockets to kill Russian tourists on a beach and now he's saying he wants to negotiate??

 

[red amoeba]

well he should have said that 2 years ago. He must have seen Biden's performance against Trump and immediately balls shrunk...better fold when he can.

 

[k1976]

https://x.com/Maejor4Congress/status/1806422984237674540?ref_src=twsrc^tfw|twcamp^tweetembed|twterm^1806422984237674540|twgr^3d776892e8468bc8967f0ae79844368ca5b228d7|twcon^s1_&ref_url=https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/zelensky-gets-more-realistic-we-dont-have-lot-time


BREAKING: It appears that Zelensky is reconsidering his stance on continuing the war against Russia, possibly in light of the upcoming U.S. presidential election and Biden's potential loss.

Is he weary of the ongoing financial support? "We don't have too much time because we have many wounded and dead, both on the battlefield and among civilians. That's why we don't want this war to continue for years. We aim to prepare a joint plan and present it at the next peace summit."

 

[k1976]

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.bbc.com/news/articles/cjerdw9g159o.amp

There was no preparation': One marine's story of defending Kharkiv​

IMAGE SOURCE,GETTY IMAGES
Image caption,Ukraine's troops are fighting hard against Russian advances in the Kharkiv regionArticle information

• Author,James Waterhouse
• Role,Ukraine correspondent
• 8 hours ago

For months, Oleksiy has been fighting to hold a thin strip of land surrounded by Russian forces.
Now he’s been rushed to defend Moscow’s onslaught in the Kharkiv region, like many other soldiers scrambled from other parts of Ukraine’s front line.
It’s a redeployment symptomatic of this war’s new focus.
We’ve been in touch with Oleksiy for the past nine months. Now from north-eastern Ukraine, he’s described the difference in fighting as “huge”.

 

[k1976]

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.al...ing-comprehensive-plan-to-end-war-with-russia​

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Ukraine’s Zelenskyy charting ‘comprehensive plan’ to end war with Russia​

Ukrainian president says as the war rages and casualties mount, a plan to end the 28-month conflict is ‘the diplomatic route we are working on’.

Volodymyr Zelenskyy speaks at a news conference with Slovenia's President Natasha Pirc Musar in Kyiv on Friday [Anatolii Stepanov/AFP]
Published On 28 Jun 202428 Jun 2024




Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says he’s drawing up a “comprehensive plan” for how Kyiv believes the war with Russia should end.
“It is very important for us to show a plan to end the war that will be supported by the majority of the world,” the Ukrainian president said at a news conference in Kyiv alongside Slovenian President Natasa Pirc Musar on Friday.
“This is the diplomatic route we are working on.”

 

[k1976]

Any samster willing to help this poor Ukraine Chiobu?​

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I married the love of my life in a Ukrainian bunker - then he was killed​

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.bbc.com/news/articles/cv220gq7p31o.amp

IMAGE SOURCE,VALERIA SUBOTINA
Image caption,Andriy and Valeria's dreams of a future together were crushed by Russia's invasion

Mariupol was doomed. Relentless Russian bombing had turned streets into ruins and courtyards into graveyards.

But several metres underground in the south-eastern Ukrainian city, a romance was blooming.

Valeria Subotina, 33, had been sheltering in the enormous Azovstal steelworks, the final stronghold in the city, as it was surrounded by Russian forces in spring 2022.

She had taken cover in one of dozens of Soviet-era bomb shelters built to withstand nuclear war, deep beneath the industrial plant.
Article information

• Author,Diana Kuryshko

 

[zhihau]

Ukraine just used US supplied ATACMS rockets to kill Russian tourists on a beach and now he's saying he wants to negotiate??

Biden should just tell this clown this: Het Pesde!

 

[k1976]

Russia presses its offensive in Ukraine and issues new threats as the West tries to blunt the push​

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FILE - Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks during a meeting at the Foreign Ministry in Moscow, on Friday, June 14, 2024. Putin says that Moscow isn’t seeking quick gains in Ukraine and will stick to the current strategy of slow advances as it presses a grinding summer offensive. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko, File)
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FILE - Russian President Vladimir Putin, background center, and Defense Minister Andrei Belousov, background right, attend a ceremony at the Tomb of Unknown Soldier in Moscow, on Saturday, June 22, 2024. Putin says that Moscow isn’t seeking quick gains in Ukraine and will stick to the current strategy of slow advances as it presses a grinding summer offensive. (Sergei Guneyev, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP, File)
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FILE - This photo, taken from video released by the Russian Defense Ministry Press Service on Wednesday, May 22, 2024, shows a Su-25 fighter jet firing rockets during a mission over Ukraine. Russian troops are forging through Ukraine’s defenses along the front line of the battlefield in a relentless onslaught this summer, prompting the West to push for new weapons and strategies to shore up Kyiv. (Russian Defense Ministry Press Service via AP, File)
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FILE - Ukrainian soldiers carry shells to fire at Russian positions on the front line, near the city of Bakhmut, in Ukraine’s Donetsk region, on March 25, 2024. Russia has made incremental but steady advances in Donetsk, and Putin has declared that Moscow isn’t seeking quick gains and would stick to the current strategy of advancing slowly. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky, File)
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FILE - In this photo released by the Russian Defense Ministry Press Service on Sunday, June 2, 2024, a Russian soldier operates a gun at an undisclosed location in Ukraine. Moscow’s troops are forging through Ukraine’s defenses along the front line of the battlefield in a relentless onslaught this summer, prompting the West to push for new weapons and strategies to shore up Kyiv. (Russian Defense Ministry Press Service via AP, File)
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FILE – A newly recruited soldier trains in Kyiv, Ukraine, on Friday, May 17, 2024. Slowly but steadily this summer, Russian troops are forging through Ukraine’s defenses in a relentless onslaught, prompting the West to push for new weapons and strategies to shore up Kyiv. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky, File)
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FILE - In this photo released by Russian Defense Ministry Press Service on Monday, May 20, 2024, Russian army’s snipers change their position at an undisclosed location. Russia has taken advantage of its edge in firepower amid delays in U.S. aid to scale up attacks in several areas along the 1,000-kilometer (600-mile) front. (Russian Defense Ministry Press Service via AP, File)
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FILE - Ukrainian soldiers fire on Russian positions along the front line in the Donetsk region of Ukraine on Monday, June 24, 2024. Russia has made incremental but steady advances in Donetsk, and Putin has declared that Moscow isn’t seeking quick gains and would stick to the current strategy of advancing slowly. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka, File)
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FILE - In this photo released by the Russian Defense Ministry Press Service on Tuesday, June 25, 2024, Russian soldiers fire from an undisclosed location in Ukraine. Russia has taken advantage of its edge in firepower amid delays in U.S. aid to scale up attacks in several areas along the 1,000-kilometer (600-mile) front. (Russian Defense Ministry Press Service via AP, File)
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FILE - A Ukrainian serviceman operates a drone on the front line in the Zaporizhzhia region of Ukraine, on Friday, June 14, 2024. Russia has taken advantage of its edge in firepower amid delays in U.S. aid to scale up attacks in several areas along the 1,000-kilometer (600-mile) front. (AP Photo/Andriy Andriyenko, File)
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FILE - In this photo, taken from video released by the Russian Defense Ministry Press Service on Wednesday, June 12, 2024, Russian soldiers walk through a forest in an undisclosed location in Ukraine. Russia has taken advantage of its edge in firepower amid delays in U.S. aid to scale up attacks in several areas along the 1,000-kilometer (600-mile) front. (Russian Defense Ministry Press Service via AP, File)
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FILE - A Ukrainian serviceman carries a U.S. Stinger air-defense missile launcher on the front line in the Zaporizhzhia region of Ukraine, on Tuesday, May 28, 2024. Russian troops are forging through Ukraine’s defenses along the front line in a relentless onslaught this summer, prompting the West to push for new weapons and strategies to shore up Kyiv. (AP Photo/Andriy Andriyenko, File)
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FILE - This photo, taken from video released by the Russian Defense Ministry Press Service on Thursday, June 27, 2024, shows a Russian combat helicopter firing rockets during a mission over Ukraine. Russian troops are forging through Ukraine’s defenses along the front line of the battlefield in a relentless onslaught this summer, prompting the West to push for new weapons and strategies to shore up Kyiv. (Russian Defense Ministry Press Service via AP, File)
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FILE - Ukrainian soldiers ride in a combat vehicle near the front line in the Kharkiv region of Ukraine, on Tuesday, June 18, 2024. Russia’s offensive near the city of Kharkiv that began in May has apparently lost momentum after Ukraine bolstered its forces in the area by redeploying troops there from other sectors. (AP Photo/Andrii Marienko, File)
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FILE - Russian President Vladimir Putin, left, and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un exchange documents during a ceremony for their new partnership in Pyongyang, North Korea, on Wednesday, June 19, 2024. The leaders signed a mutual defense pact, and Putin held the door open for arms supplies to the North. (Kristina Kormilitsyna, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP, File)
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BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Updated 12:20 PM GMT+8, June 29, 2024
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Slowly but steadily this summer, Russian troops are forging through Ukraine’s outgunned and undermanned defenses in a relentless onslaught, prompting the West to push for new weapons and strategies to shore up Kyiv.
That, in turn, has brought new threats by President Vladimir Putin to retaliate against the West — either directly or indirectly.
The moves by the West to blunt the offensive and the potential Kremlin response could lead to a dangerous escalation as the war drags through its third year — one that further raises the peril of a direct confrontation between Russia and NATO.

[COLOR=var(--headlineColor)]Russia presses its offensive in Ukraine and issues new threats as the West tries to blunt the push​

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FILE - Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks during a meeting at the Foreign Ministry in Moscow, on Friday, June 14, 2024. Putin says that Moscow isn’t seeking quick gains in Ukraine and will stick to the current strategy of slow advances as it presses a grinding summer offensive. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko, File)

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FILE - Russian President Vladimir Putin, background center, and Defense Minister Andrei Belousov, background right, attend a ceremony at the Tomb of Unknown Soldier in Moscow, on Saturday, June 22, 2024. Putin says that Moscow isn’t seeking quick gains in Ukraine and will stick to the current strategy of slow advances as it presses a grinding summer offensive. (Sergei Guneyev, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP, File)[/COLOR]

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FILE - This photo, taken from video released by the Russian Defense Ministry Press Service on Wednesday, May 22, 2024, shows a Su-25 fighter jet firing rockets during a mission over Ukraine. Russian troops are forging through Ukraine’s defenses along the front line of the battlefield in a relentless onslaught this summer, prompting the West to push for new weapons and strategies to shore up Kyiv. (Russian Defense Ministry Press Service via AP, File)[/COLOR]

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FILE - Ukrainian soldiers carry shells to fire at Russian positions on the front line, near the city of Bakhmut, in Ukraine’s Donetsk region, on March 25, 2024. Russia has made incremental but steady advances in Donetsk, and Putin has declared that Moscow isn’t seeking quick gains and would stick to the current strategy of advancing slowly. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky, File)
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FILE - In this photo released by the Russian Defense Ministry Press Service on Sunday, June 2, 2024, a Russian soldier operates a gun at an undisclosed location in Ukraine. Moscow’s troops are forging through Ukraine’s defenses along the front line of the battlefield in a relentless onslaught this summer, prompting the West to push for new weapons and strategies to shore up Kyiv. (Russian Defense Ministry Press Service via AP, File)
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FILE – A newly recruited soldier trains in Kyiv, Ukraine, on Friday, May 17, 2024. Slowly but steadily this summer, Russian troops are forging through Ukraine’s defenses in a relentless onslaught, prompting the West to push for new weapons and strategies to shore up Kyiv. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky, File)
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FILE - In this photo released by Russian Defense Ministry Press Service on Monday, May 20, 2024, Russian army’s snipers change their position at an undisclosed location. Russia has taken advantage of its edge in firepower amid delays in U.S. aid to scale up attacks in several areas along the 1,000-kilometer (600-mile) front. (Russian Defense Ministry Press Service via AP, File)
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FILE - Ukrainian soldiers fire on Russian positions along the front line in the Donetsk region of Ukraine on Monday, June 24, 2024. Russia has made incremental but steady advances in Donetsk, and Putin has declared that Moscow isn’t seeking quick gains and would stick to the current strategy of advancing slowly. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka, File)
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FILE - In this photo released by the Russian Defense Ministry Press Service on Tuesday, June 25, 2024, Russian soldiers fire from an undisclosed location in Ukraine. Russia has taken advantage of its edge in firepower amid delays in U.S. aid to scale up attacks in several areas along the 1,000-kilometer (600-mile) front. (Russian Defense Ministry Press Service via AP, File)
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FILE - A Ukrainian serviceman operates a drone on the front line in the Zaporizhzhia region of Ukraine, on Friday, June 14, 2024. Russia has taken advantage of its edge in firepower amid delays in U.S. aid to scale up attacks in several areas along the 1,000-kilometer (600-mile) front. (AP Photo/Andriy Andriyenko, File)
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FILE - In this photo, taken from video released by the Russian Defense Ministry Press Service on Wednesday, June 12, 2024, Russian soldiers walk through a forest in an undisclosed location in Ukraine. Russia has taken advantage of its edge in firepower amid delays in U.S. aid to scale up attacks in several areas along the 1,000-kilometer (600-mile) front. (Russian Defense Ministry Press Service via AP, File)
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FILE - A Ukrainian serviceman carries a U.S. Stinger air-defense missile launcher on the front line in the Zaporizhzhia region of Ukraine, on Tuesday, May 28, 2024. Russian troops are forging through Ukraine’s defenses along the front line in a relentless onslaught this summer, prompting the West to push for new weapons and strategies to shore up Kyiv. (AP Photo/Andriy Andriyenko, File)
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FILE - This photo, taken from video released by the Russian Defense Ministry Press Service on Thursday, June 27, 2024, shows a Russian combat helicopter firing rockets during a mission over Ukraine. Russian troops are forging through Ukraine’s defenses along the front line of the battlefield in a relentless onslaught this summer, prompting the West to push for new weapons and strategies to shore up Kyiv. (Russian Defense Ministry Press Service via AP, File)
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FILE - Ukrainian soldiers ride in a combat vehicle near the front line in the Kharkiv region of Ukraine, on Tuesday, June 18, 2024. Russia’s offensive near the city of Kharkiv that began in May has apparently lost momentum after Ukraine bolstered its forces in the area by redeploying troops there from other sectors. (AP Photo/Andrii Marienko, File)
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FILE - Russian President Vladimir Putin, left, and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un exchange documents during a ceremony for their new partnership in Pyongyang, North Korea, on Wednesday, June 19, 2024. The leaders signed a mutual defense pact, and Putin held the door open for arms supplies to the North. (Kristina Kormilitsyna, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP, File)[/COLOR]
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Slowly but steadily this summer, Russian troops are forging through Ukraine’s outgunned and undermanned [COLOR=var(--color-link-text)]defenses[/COLOR] in a relentless onslaught, prompting the West to push for new weapons and strategies to shore up Kyiv.
That, in turn, has brought [COLOR=var(--color-link-text)]new threats[/COLOR] by President Vladimir Putin to retaliate against the West — either directly or indirectly.
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[k1976]

Ukraine’s Zelenskyy charting ‘comprehensive plan’ to end war with Russia​

Ukrainian president says as the war rages and casualties mount, a plan to end the 28-month conflict is ‘the diplomatic route we are working on’.

Volodymyr Zelenskyy speaks at a news conference with Slovenia's President Natasha Pirc Musar in Kyiv on Friday [Anatolii Stepanov/AFP]
Published On 28 Jun 202428 Jun 2024




Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says he’s drawing up a “comprehensive plan” for how Kyiv believes the war with Russia should end.

“It is very important for us to show a plan to end the war that will be supported by the majority of the world,” the Ukrainian president said at a news conference in Kyiv alongside Slovenian President Natasa Pirc Musar on Friday.

“This is the diplomatic route we are working on.”

There are no current negotiations between Ukraine and Russia and, based on public statements by Zelenskyy and Russian President Vladimir Putin, the two sides appear as far apart as ever when it comes to the terms of a potential peace settlement.

Ukraine has repeatedly said Russia must pull its troops out of its internationally recognised territory – including the peninsula of Crimea that Moscow annexed in 2014 – before peace talks can start.

Meanwhile, Putin, who launched the full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, is demanding Ukraine effectively capitulate by evacuating even more territory across its east and south that Russia now occupies.

 

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Russia's VTB bank says US sanctions have complicated cross-border transactions​

By Reuters
June 28, 20247:18 PM GMT+8Updated 21 hours ago

A view shows a board with the logo of VTB bank at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF) in Saint Petersburg, Russia June 5, 2024. REUTERS/Anton Vaganov/File Photo Purchase Licensing Rights, opens new tab
MOSCOW, June 28 (Reuters) - U.S. sanctions imposed on Moscow this month have complicated the foreign trade operations of Russian banks, but they are gradually adapting to the new realities, the finance director of VTB (VTBR.MM), opens new tab, Russia's second-largest lender, said on Friday.
On June 12, the U.S. imposed Ukraine-related sanctions on the Moscow Exchange (MOEX.MM), opens new tab, which stopped trading in currency pairs with the dollar and euro.

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The sanctions package also targeted China-based companies selling semiconductors to Moscow, and the U.S. Treasury said it was raising "the risk of secondary sanctions for foreign financial institutions that deal with Russia's war economy," effectively threatening them with losing access to the U.S. financial system.
VTB's branch in Shanghai, the only representative office of a Russian bank in China, fell under the sanctions.

 

[k1976]

Asia

Sri Lanka calls on Russia to discharge its citizens from army​

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Sri Lanka calls on Russia to discharge its citizens from army​

Protesters near the Russian embassy in Colombo seeking the release of Sri Lankan ex-soldiers who joined forces fighting in Ukraine after Russia's invasion. (File photo: AFP/Ishara S Kodikara)
28 Jun 2024 02:44AM (Updated: 28 Jun 2024 06:44AM)
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COLOMBO: Sri Lanka has asked Russia to allow its former soldiers fighting in Moscow's war against Ukraine to return home voluntarily, the government said Thursday (Jun 27).
An official delegation held two days of talks in Moscow this week where it called for compensation for 17 Sri Lankans killed in fighting, Colombo's foreign ministry said in a statement.
Sri Lanka's parliament set up a bipartisan inquiry last month to track at least 2,000 veterans who reportedly enlisted mainly on the Russian side of the war.
At least one former soldier has been killed after joining Ukrainian forces, according to Sri Lankan authorities.
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The ministry said two days of talks in Moscow focused on tracking Sri Lankans deployed as soldiers, supporting those reportedly wounded and efforts to track those missing.
State minister for foreign affairs Tharaka Balasuriya, who led the delegation to Moscow, raised the possibility of voluntary returns, early termination of contracts and regularisation of remuneration, the ministry said.

When Sri Lanka's economy crashed in 2022, people sought work abroad wherever they could find it - including ex-soldiers who joined forces fighting in Ukraine after Russia's invasion.


The veterans - some of whom swapped their life savings for what they thought would be lucrative, non-combat jobs - are desperate to return home.

Their families have been pressing local authorities to help bring them back.
The government says around a dozen Sri Lankans are also being held as prisoners of war in Ukraine.

The war in Ukraine has taken a heavy toll on Russian troops, and Moscow has been on a global quest for more forces to fight.
Sri Lanka has maintained a large military relative to its population of 22 million since the end of a decades-long civil war against the separatist Tamil Tigers in 2009.

 

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[k1976]

Ukraine-Russia war latest: Trump offers to ‘settle’ invasion as Biden calls Putin ‘war criminal’ at debate​

Putin wants all of Ukraine, says Biden as he calls the Russian president a ‘war criminal’​

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Donald Trump has offered to “settle the war” in Ukraine started by Vladimir Putin as he suggested Russia would have never attacked its smaller neighbour if the US had a “real president” in the office.

“Before I take office on 20 January, I’ll have that war settled,” he said at the first presidential debate with Joe Biden.


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Donald Trump has offered to “settle the war” in Ukraine started by Vladimir Putin as he suggested Russia would have never attacked its smaller neighbour if the US had a “real president” in the office.

“Before I take office on 20 January, I’ll have that war settled,” he said at the first presidential debate with Joe Biden.



However, Mr Biden called Mr Putin a “war criminal” and warned that if Russia is allowed to succeed, the Russian president would not stop at Kyiv. “He wants all of Ukraine. That’s what he wants,” Mr Biden said. “He’s killed thousands and thousands of people,” the US president said.

Mr Putin was repeatedly referenced by both US presidential candidates during Thursday’s election debate as they vied to show who was tougher on foreign policy. “Go ahead, let Putin go in and control Ukraine, and then move on to Poland and other places. See what happens then. He has no idea what the hell he’s talking about,” Mr Biden said of Mr Trump.

 

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Ukraine updates: Trump claims he could end war if reelected​

Published 24 hours agoPublished 24 hours agolast updated 13 hours agolast updated 13 hours ago
During the first presidential debate, Donald Trump said he could "settle" the conflict by January if he wins a second term. EU chief von der Leyen calls for €500 billion to shore up the bloc's defenses. DW has more.


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Former US president Donald Trump said Russia "would have never invaded Ukraine" if the United States "had a real president."
Trump made the barbed comment toward current president Joe Biden during the first televised debate ahead of November's US presidential election.

Trump again claimed he would be able to "settle" the war if re-elected, even ahead of inauguration day on January 20. However, he gave no details on how he would achieve that.

Meanwhile, a Ukrainian drone hit a Russian petrol depot early Friday setting it on fire, a Russian regional governor said.

Moscow has also ordered the military to devise a plan to deal with "provocations" by US strategic drones carrying out reconnaissance work over the Black Sea.

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen told EU leaders the bloc needs to spend €500 billion ($535 billion) on defense in the next decade in the face of Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

 

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Since the beginning of the war, the Biden administration has staunchly backed Ukraine and its president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy.

The United States has been the largest single contributor of military and financial aid to Kyiv during the conflict, though the most recently approved package of aid totaling $61 billion was delayed for some six months as Republican lawmakers held up the process demanding deep changes to border policy in exchange for their support.

The aid package was eventually approved though no deal on the border was reached.

Biden noted in the debate -- which was dominated by domestic policy issues such as the economy, immigration, and abortion -- that while Washington has been a staunch supporter of Ukraine, he has rallied leaders from more than 50 countries around the world in a coalition to help Ukraine repel Russian troops.