Who Wants to End the Russia-Ukraine War — and Who Doesn’t
this discussion in Anchorage between Putin and uh Trump that something was decided there. But Donald Trump failed to come back to the Russians with a kind of an approval or yes a kind of approval from the Europeans and from Ukraine. And that in fact is the reason why the um the summit in Budapest was postponed.
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Putin defined in June last year, these are conditioned to start the process of negotiating. Meaning that the Russians are not against negotiation, but they have set conditions to start the process. And those those two conditions I said is the withdrawal for the four from for Oblast and abandon of the NATO membership. These are the two conditions.
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