Summary

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy stated that Russia must withdraw to its pre-invasion positions from February 24, 2022.

In an interview with Newsmax, he hoped that Donald Trump, with European backing, could end the war and influence Putin.

Zelenskyy emphasized that Ukraine will not accept any negotiated settlement that excludes its involvement.

He also suggested that Trump needs a diplomatic success to differentiate his approach from Biden’s. However, there is no indication that Russia is willing to retreat.

    • @PugJesus
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      665 days ago

      Unfortunately unlikely, considering American support is now in the hands of Putin’s puppet.

      • AreaSIX
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        95 days ago

        I don’t think that Russia would be giving up Crimea in any case, regardless of who’s in the Whitehouse. The Donbas is a different question, they probably would’ve been prepared to give them back in whole or in part in negotiations, but I don’t think Crimea would’ve ever been up for negotiations.

        • @PugJesus
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          35 days ago

          In pre-2022 positions, Crimea could be strangled; it’s difficult to supply. Unfortunately, 2022 borders are only likely to be restored by negotiation, with US help unlikely, and not military success.

        • @kava
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          25 days ago

          this was was always going to end with Russia taking a large chunk of Ukraine. there was some collective delusion for a while that it wasn’t because of strong state war propaganda

          but Russia is always going to care more about Ukraine than the US. It’s their neighbor who they have more or less controlled directly or indirectly for hundreds of years.

          US support was always limited and self-interested. Just like every time US hypes up some international ally to inevitably discard them. Remember the Kurds? I’m guessing Taiwan is the next one going forward

    • @Treczoks
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      255 days ago

      That would be best. Definitely.

      • @shalafi
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        -185 days ago

        [removed by mod] for an opinion. Wow.

        • @Maalus
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          245 days ago

          It isn’t an opinion it is a straight lie.

          • @Noobnarski
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            65 days ago

            Yeah, all of those “disgruntled citizens” starting a coup in eastern Ukraine with russian equipment were later confirmed to be Russian mercenaries.

            In the end it all comes down to this: Russia will attack any country that was allied with them, but now wants to move away from that.

        • goferking (he/him)
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          -295 days ago

          May also be fastest action I’ve seen from the mods here. What 9m after posting?

          and in before they add an explicit no propaganda rule that is only used to remove non usa approved propaganda

          • @[email protected]
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            175 days ago

            Pretty easy to be quick when we’ve seen that bullshit lie posted more times than I can count.

              • @[email protected]
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                95 days ago

                Factually true, looks like the turnaround time is about 1-3 hours. I guess we don’t have the data on submitted reports - that’d be a fun thing to add to the modlog for transparency purposes.

                • goferking (he/him)
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                  4 days ago

                  Based on downvotes people don’t like getting told it.

                  And it’s not a jab when true

          • @SupraMario
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            165 days ago

            No you’re just a russian tool for spewing that bullshit.

          • @Jumi
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            35 days ago

            It would be nice if that was true because in that case nobody could hear your bullshit

          • @chiliedogg
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            14 days ago

            I wish.

            We would much prefer you walk into the woods and scream where nobody can hear you.