Politics

Lead Spokeswoman for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy - European Commission

24 Mar 2025 5 3

Guo Jiakun

Inserted 11 hours ago

“Let me stress that the report is completely false. China's position on the Ukraine crisis is clear and consistent.”

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China's Foreign Ministry spokesperson

24 Mar 2025 2 3

Lisa Young

Inserted 1 day ago

“[Carney] wants to call the election while he still has this kind of momentum as a new leader - and while the shock of the Trump administration is still front of mind for Canadians.”

Political science professor at the University of Calgary

23 Mar 2025 6 4

Mark Carney

Inserted 1 day ago

“We are facing the most significant crisis of our lifetimes because of President [Donald] Trump's unjustified trade actions and his threats to our sovereignty. I'm asking Canadians for a strong, positive mandate to deal with President Trump and to build a new Canadian economy that works for everyone because I know we need change - big change, positive change.”

Prime Minister of Canada

23 Mar 2025 5 3

Dmitry Peskov

Inserted 1 day ago

“One shouldn't get one's hopes high. Very serious, thorough work is ahead. We will have to delve into the details. We're only in the beginning of this road.”

Kremlin spokesman

23 Mar 2025 3 3

Serhiy Taran

Inserted 1 day ago

“The maximum result is a pause. But this is still unknown, because the negotiations could drag on for a month or two. I think the most that can be imagined is that, perhaps, some technical details about the cease-fire will be worked out. And they will then be taken back to Kyiv, Moscow, and Washington in the form of proposals. This is the maximum. This is not about peace. This is simply the technical origin of certain details of the cease-fire.”

Political analyst

23 Mar 2025 5 4

Yusuf Can

Inserted 2 days ago

“The majority of the suspended accounts were university-associated activist accounts, basically sharing protest information, locations for students to go. Many of these accounts are grassroots activists with their followings in the low tens of thousands.”

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Coordinator and analyst at the Wilson Center's Middle East Program

22 Mar 2025 3 2

Zeina Khodr

Inserted 2 days ago

“There is a lot of concern that the situation will spiral out of control. What we understand is Lebanese officials are holding talks with the US-led committee monitoring the ceasefire to try to de-escalate tensions.”

Al Jazeera’s journalist reporting from Beirut

22 Mar 2025 4 2

Steve Witkoff

Inserted 2 days ago

“The ultimate goal is a 30-day ceasefire during which time we discuss a permanent ceasefire. We're not far away from that, but a 30-day ceasefire is something where we have to figure out what all the battlefield conditions are, which is why I began with Kursk.”

President Donald Trump’s Middle East envoy

21 Mar 2025 5 5

Volodymyr Zelenskiy

Inserted 4 days ago

“Trump has not raised this issue [Crimea] in talks with me. We talked about Crimea back in September in New York. He was interested in why Ukrainians love Crimea so much because he had heard about it.”

President of Ukraine

20 Mar 2025 4 2

Avigdor Liberman

Inserted 4 days ago

“The prime minister of October 7 [Benjamin Netanyahu] is doing exactly what our enemies dream of - fighting the Shin Bet head. [Netanyahu] needed to take responsibility after the disaster, resign first and demand all those to blame for the failure join him.”

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Yisrael Beiteinu leader and former defense minister

20 Mar 2025 3 1

Pierre Poilievre

Inserted 5 days ago

“Yesterday, the president said that having a Liberal prime minister would be easier for him to deal with, just as he threatened once again to make us the 51st state. On that point, it's true: I'm a strong leader, a tough guy to deal with. I'm firm in my convictions, and I'll always put Canada first.”

Leader of the Conservative Party of Canada

19 Mar 2025 6 4

Ozgur Ozel

Inserted 5 days ago

“I invite all lawyers to Vatan [Istanbul Police headquarters] with their robes and all Istanbulites to Sarachane [Istanbul Municipality headquarters] to support our Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu. There is no salvation alone - either all together or none of us!”

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Leader of the Main Opposition in Türkiye

19 Mar 2025 3 3

Volodymyr Zelenskiy

Inserted 6 days ago

“Today, Putin effectively rejected the proposal for a full ceasefire. It would be right for the world to respond by rejecting any attempts by Putin to prolong the war.”

President of Ukraine

18 Mar 2025 3 3

Ori Goldberg

Inserted 6 days ago

“Such a display of lethality, of horrendous carnage as we saw last night, can be perceived as strength. But that's all Israel can do. It can kill Palestinians but it can't do much more. It can't control events on the ground in any other meaningful way, and I believe negotiations will resume quickly. He is going to try to score points for being hard on Hamas on the one hand, and the man in the negotiating chair on the other. I don't think he's doing too well on either front.”

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Local expert on Israeli politics

18 Mar 2025 5 4

Donald Trump

Inserted 1 week ago

“I'll be speaking to President Putin on Tuesday. A lot of work's been done over the weekend. We want to see if we can bring that war to an end. Maybe we can, maybe we can't, but I think we have a very good chance. We'll be talking about land. We'll be talking about power plants. I think we have a lot of it already discussed very much by both sides, Ukraine and Russia. We're already talking about that, dividing up certain assets.”

President of the United States

17 Mar 2025 3 2

Steve Witkoff

Inserted 1 week ago

“The two presidents are going to have a really good and positive discussion this week.”

President Donald Trump’s special envoy

16 Mar 2025 1 2

Keir Starmer

Inserted 1 week ago

“We will build up Ukraine's own defences and armed forces and be ready to deploy as a 'coalition of the willing' in the event of a peace deal to help secure Ukraine on the land, at sea and in the sky. We agreed military planners would convene again in the UK this week to progress practical plans for how our militaries can support Ukraine's future security.”

UK Prime Minister

15 Mar 2025 5 3

Friedrich Merz

Inserted 1 week ago

“Germany is back. Germany is making its great contribution to the defense of freedom and peace in Europe.”

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Germany’s conservative Chancellor-in-waiting

14 Mar 2025 3 2

Tatiana Stanovaya

Inserted 1 week ago

“Putin's position today rejects an unconditional ceasefire - an uncomfortable stance that risks angering Trump and hindering the otherwise promising prospects of normalizing bilateral relations. However, this rejection is not absolute; he outlines his demands. His key condition is that a ceasefire must serve as a stepping stone to substantive talks on the root causes of the conflict-Ukraine must agree to discuss an 'Istanbul Plus' framework, which Russia views as a path to Kyiv's capitulation. Putin also requires commitments from the US to halt military supplies, while Kyiv must pledge not to fortify its defense lines or use the pause for rearmament. Zelenskyy's legitimacy must also be addressed.”

Founder of the political analysis firm R.Politik

13 Mar 2025 8 2

Vladimir Putin

Inserted 1 week ago

“We agree with the proposals to stop the hostilities, but we proceed from the fact that this cessation should be such that it would lead to long-term peace and eliminate the original causes of this crisis. The idea itself [of a cease-fire] is correct, and we certainly support it, but there are issues that we must discuss. I think that we need to talk to our American colleagues and partners about this, maybe call President [Donald] Trump and discuss it together. But the idea itself of ending this conflict by peaceful means is supported by us.”

President of Russia

13 Mar 2025 8 3

Marco Rubio

Inserted 1 week ago

“Ukraine supported the US offer to enter into a ceasefire and into immediate negotiations to end this conflict in a way that's enduring and sustainable and accounts for their interests, their security, their ability to prosper as a nation. The US will now pass the proposal on to Russia. We hope that they [the Russians] will say yes, that they'll say yes to peace. The ball is now in their court.”

U.S. Secretary of State

11 Mar 2025 6 4

Elizabeth Pancotti

Inserted 1 week ago

“I think the real risk here is that if Trump doesn't reverse course on what he's doing, it could be his last boring report, which I think would be really damaging to the economy. If you look under the hood, I think we are starting to see pretty foreboding cracks.”

Managing director of policy and advocacy at the economic think tank Groundwork Collective

11 Mar 2025 2 2

Michael Froman

Inserted 2 weeks ago

“Ukraine has the weakest hand at the table. As Trump and his emissaries have made clear, Washington is not inclined to indefinitely support Kyiv. Now comes time for a new round of betting. What is Ukraine's bottom line, both with the United States and with Russia? What American chips is Trump willing to wager to strike not just any deal, but a deal that creates a just and durable peace?”

President of the Council on Foreign Relations think tank

10 Mar 2025 5 5

Donald Tusk

Inserted 2 weeks ago

“This is what happens when someone appeases barbarians. More bombs, more aggression, more victims. Another tragic night in Ukraine.”

Polish Prime Minister

08 Mar 2025 5 3

Donald Trump

Inserted 2 weeks ago

“Based on the fact that Russia is absolutely 'pounding' Ukraine on the battlefield right now, I am strongly considering large scale Banking Sanctions, Sanctions, and Tariffs on Russia until a Cease Fire and FINAL SETTLEMENT AGREEMENT ON PEACE IS REACHED. To Russia and Ukraine, get to the table right now, before it is too late. Thank you!!!”

President of the United States

07 Mar 2025 4 3

Justin Trudeau

Inserted 2 weeks ago

“Canada will hold firm and push ahead with retaliatory tariffs and other measures until Trump backs off entirely. Our goal is to get all tariffs removed. We are in a moment right now where Canada has a very, very strong bargaining position, because Canadians are so united and unequivocal about standing up for our country and standing up for our fellow citizens and being very firm that this is an unjustified and unjustifiable trade war launched by the Americans.”

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Prime Minister of Canada

07 Mar 2025 7 2

David Eby

Inserted 2 weeks ago

“Yet again the president is sowing uncertainty and chaos, attempting to undermine our economy by implementing tariffs and then pulling them. We are going to ensure that the Americans understand how pissed off we are.”

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British Columbia Premier

06 Mar 2025 4 3

Milorad Dodik

Inserted 2 weeks ago

“I will not go to their political court, because Serbs no longer submit to inquisitions!”

Bosnian Serb leader

06 Mar 2025 2 3

Alan Fisher

Inserted 2 weeks ago

“The move to withdraw intelligence cooperation is just a tool to try and get Ukraine back to the table. They [the US] also talked about stopping military aid to Ukraine, which the Ukrainians admit would hit their war efforts, not end it completely. Clearly, just the threat of those things has worked. So when you hear from the national security adviser saying things could be resumed in short order, it seems to suggest that any impact on Ukraine would be limited, to say the least, as long as peace talks certainly seem to be on the horizon sooner rather than later.”

Al Jazeera’s journalist reporting from the White House

05 Mar 2025 6 1

John Ratcliffe

Inserted 2 weeks ago

“I think on the military front and the intelligence front, the pause [that prompted Ukraine's president to respond] I think will go away. I think we'll work shoulder to shoulder with Ukraine as we have to push back on the aggression that's there, but to put the world in a better place for these peace negotiations to move forward.”

CIA Director

05 Mar 2025 1 1

James David Vance

Inserted 2 weeks ago

“We do believe that it's in Russia's best interest, but also Ukraine and the United States's best interest to bring this conflict to a close. So we believe in applying pressure to everybody, to stop the killing, because that's what the president's policy is and that's what's in the best interest of the American people.”

US Vice President

04 Mar 2025 3 3

Andrew Small

Inserted 3 weeks ago

“This [diplomatic fissures between the United States and its European allies] has been pretty unequivocally good for China. Beijing sees the wider opportunities that this could bring, from Taiwan contingencies to more global cooperation with Russia to a weakened United States.”

Senior fellow at the German Marshall Fund in Berlin who previously advised the European Commission on China strategy

04 Mar 2025 3 2

Ryan Hass

Inserted 3 weeks ago

“Taiwan needs the U.S., but the U.S. also needs Taiwan. Trump knows this fact. There is a complementary division of labor between US tech companies and Taiwan's chip foundries that cannot be replaced.”

Former director for China on the U.S. National Security Council

03 Mar 2025 5 3

Keir Starmer

Inserted 3 weeks ago

“Every nation must contribute to that in the best way that it can, bringing different capabilities and support to the table, but all taking responsibility to act, all stepping up their own share of the burden.”

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UK Prime Minister

03 Mar 2025 1 2

Volodymyr Zelenskiy

Inserted 3 weeks ago

“We are worthy of an equal dialogue, for a constructive dialogue... [If Donald Trump] invites [me] to solve real problems, for serious issues and real, decisive actions and answers - I will arrive.”

President of Ukraine

03 Mar 2025 4 1

Volodymyr Zelenskiy

Inserted 3 weeks ago

“We will be ready [to diplomacy with Russia]. Nobody wants to finish [this war] more than we, in Ukraine… because we are in this battle… for our lives… I think that we have to be on the same side [with the US]. I am very open, but I can't, you know, change our Ukrainian attitude to Russia. And I don't want to - they are killers for us… Americans are the best of our friends… And Putin, with Russians, they are enemies. It doesn't mean that we don't want peace.”

President of Ukraine

28 Feb 2025 6 4

Viktor Orbán

Inserted 3 weeks ago

“Strong men make peace, weak men make war. Today President Trump stood bravely for peace. Even if it was difficult for many to digest. Thank you, Mr. President!”

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Prime Minister of Hungary

28 Feb 2025 6 1

Jonas Gahr Støre

Inserted 3 weeks ago

“What we saw from the White House today is serious and disheartening … That Trump accuses Zelenskyy of gambling with World War III is deeply unreasonable and a statement I distance myself from. Norway stands with Ukraine in their struggle for freedom.”

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Prime Minister of Norway

28 Feb 2025 7 1

Mykhaylo Samus

Inserted 3 weeks ago

“What's most important is the final deal. In the meantime, both Trump and Zelenskyy get to portray it as a win. From the Ukrainian side, it's an attempt to stop this confrontation with the Trump administration. For Trump, he wants to show he's got a result. It means Trump could say 'we've got compensation for our taxpayers [for supporting Ukraine]. It's an attempt to say something to the American electorate: 'You see we've got another a victory'.”

Director of the New Geopolitics Research Network in Kyiv

28 Feb 2025 6 2

Maximilian Hess

Inserted 3 weeks ago

“The deal is far too vague to have any economic meaning while Ukraine is still at war and for the foreseeable future thereafter. But if it does give Trump the headline win that he desires and sees support for Ukraine continue, then it's a very good deal for Ukraine.”

Political risk analyst at the Foreign Policy Research Institute, a Philadelphia-based think tank

28 Feb 2025 5 2

Donald Trump

Inserted 3 weeks ago

“Right now we don't have a deal. We have Russia, we have Ukraine. I think we're very well advanced. I think Russia has been acting very well. I have confidence that if we make a deal, it's gonna hold.”

President of the United States

27 Feb 2025 3 3

Donald Tusk

Inserted 3 weeks ago

“The EU wasn't formed to screw anyone. Quite the opposite. It was formed to maintain peace, to build respect among our nations, to create free and fair trade, and to strengthen our transatlantic friendship. As simple as that.”

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Polish Prime Minister

27 Feb 2025 2 1

Fiona Hill

Inserted 3 weeks ago

“The United States has shifted, and Europe has realized that if it wants to be serious about its own security and also about a long-term settlement of Ukraine, which is essential to European security, then they need to change as well.”

Trump’s former Russia adviser during his first term

27 Feb 2025 4 1

Volodymyr Zelenskiy

Inserted 3 weeks ago

“This deal could be a great success, or it could pass quietly. And big success depends on our conversation with President Trump. It is important for me and all of us in the world that America's assistance is not stopped.”

President of Ukraine

26 Feb 2025 4 2

Oleksiy Melnik

Inserted 3 weeks ago

“Ukraine is in an extremely difficult position. Now Ukraine is under double pressure as one of our key partners, whom we considered a strategic partner, seems to be changing sides. What Donald Trump has done so far is something nobody in Ukraine expected. The choice is either Ukraine says no, and faces possible consequences, or Ukraine has to accept settlement terms of the U.S.-Russian talks.”

Security analyst and co-director of the Razumkov Centre in Kyiv, an analytical group

26 Feb 2025 4 3

Donald Trump

Inserted 3 weeks ago

“I've had very good conversations with President Putin. I had very good conversations with President Zelenskyy. And until four weeks ago, nobody had conversations with anybody. It was not even a consideration. Nobody thought you could make peace. We're going to do the best we can to make the best deal we can for both sides. But for Ukraine, we're going to try very hard to make a good deal so that they can get as much [of their territory - ed.] back as possible. We want to get as much back as possible.”

President of the United States

26 Feb 2025 4 2

Volodymyr Zelenskiy

Inserted 3 weeks ago

“The question is not that we are ungrateful. We are grateful. But if the next agreement contains a condition that new aid will not be free, I will not play. There is no $500 billion debt, nor $350 billion, nor $100 billion. That would be unfair to us.”

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President of Ukraine

26 Feb 2025 3 1

Keir Starmer

Inserted 3 weeks ago

“I think in our heart of hearts, we've all known that this decision has been coming for three years since the beginning of the conflict in Ukraine. The last few weeks have accelerated my thinking.”

UK Prime Minister

26 Feb 2025 1 2

Marco Rubio

Inserted 3 weeks ago

“The president's talked about that there are opportunities to work together. And obviously that's going to entail talking about not just Russian assets that have been seized by America, by the Europeans or the US, but also American companies that have been hurt. So that'll have to be brought a part of a broader conversation about how to reset our relations.”

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U.S. Secretary of State

25 Feb 2025 4 2

Recep Tayyip Erdogan

Inserted 1 month ago

“It is Türkiye and its full EU membership that can save the European Union from its deadlock, ranging from the economy to defense and from politics to international standing. Türkiye can throw a lifeline to the EU's rapidly aging economy and work force. The earlier the EU faces these realities, the better it will be for them. As always, we are eager to advance our membership process based on mutual benefit and respect, with a constructive approach.”

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Turkish President

24 Feb 2025 4 2

Ursula von der Leyen

Inserted 1 month ago

“What I want to emphasise is that if you would just only set a date, then it would also mean the other candidate countries would ask immediately for a date and not a process anymore. But again, I really appreciate the political will that is there. I would even say Ukraine's merit-based process. If they continue at that speed and at that quality, perhaps they could be earlier than 2030.”

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President of the European Commission

24 Feb 2025 2 2

Friedrich Merz

Inserted 1 month ago

“After Donald Trump's statements in the last week, it is clear that the Americans are largely indifferent to the fate of Europe. I'm very curious to see how we head toward the NATO summit at the end of June - whether we will still be talking about NATO in its current form or whether we will have to establish an independent European defense capability much more quickly.”

Chairman of Germany's center-right Christian Democratic Union (CDU)

23 Feb 2025 6 2

Volodymyr Zelenskiy

Inserted 1 month ago

“If to achieve peace you really need me to give up my post, I'm ready. I can trade it for NATO, if there are such conditions.”

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President of Ukraine

23 Feb 2025 1 4

Steve Witkoff

Inserted 1 month ago

“Obviously there would be an expectation that if we get to a peace deal, that you would be able to have American companies come back and do business there. And I think that everybody would believe that that would be a positive, good thing to happen.”

President Donald Trump’s Middle East envoy

23 Feb 2025 4 3

Vladimir Putin

Inserted 1 month ago

“Today, amid rapid changes in the world, our strategic course for strengthening and development of the armed forces remains unchanged. We will continue to increase the combat capabilities of the army and navy, their combat readiness as the most important component of Russia's security, a guarantee of its sovereign present and future and its progress.”

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President of Russia

23 Feb 2025 2 2

Keir Starmer

Inserted 1 month ago

“This is a significant moment for the future of Ukraine and European security at large. Ukraine must be at the heart of any negotiations to end the war and that safeguarding Ukraine's sovereignty was essential to deter future aggression from Russia.”

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UK Prime Minister

22 Feb 2025 4 3

Andrea Kendall-Taylor

Inserted 1 month ago

“I was particularly distressed to hear Mr. Rubio say in Riyadh that an agreement would require concessions from all sides. My jaw fell to the floor. That he could come out and with a straight face say that he thinks the Russians are interested in negotiations, and that all sides have to make concessions? Because there has not been one sign of the Russians being willing to make any concessions. If Mr. Rubio feels he can responsibly shape Mr. Trump's diplomacy with Mr. Putin the key question is: Where do you draw the line? You'd better know in advance what your red lines are.”

Russia expert with the Center for a New American Security

21 Feb 2025 9 3

John Bolton

Inserted 1 month ago

“It's not an easy position for Rubio to be in. While Mr. Rubio is more knowledgeable and experienced on Russia than most Trump officials, he is operating in an environment where knowledge and experience doesn't mean anything.”

Former US National Security Advisor from 2018 to 2019

21 Feb 2025 5 3

Donald Trump

Inserted 1 month ago

“I don't think he's very important to be at meetings to be honest with you, he's been there for three years. I have been watching Mr. Zelensky negotiate with no cards. And you get sick of it. You just get sick of it. And I've had it.”

President of the United States

21 Feb 2025 3 2

Lucian Kim

Inserted 1 month ago

“We seem to be witnessing not a reset but a wholesale realignment of U.S.-Russian relations. In that sense, the war in Ukraine is not a call to resist Russian aggression but a roadblock to closer cooperation between Washington and Moscow.”

Senior Ukraine analyst at the International Crisis Group

21 Feb 2025 4 2

Dennis Wilder

Inserted 1 month ago

“The Chinese have seen this coming since Trump was elected and signaled that he wanted to quickly end the war in Ukraine. While a complete rapprochement might not be in the cards, they're nervous because if Trump lifts sanctions on Russia, then Moscow's dependency on China decreases. In the same way as Nixon with China policy, they see Trump as someone who is uniquely placed to run against the current nature of U.S. policy towards Russia and could even travel to Moscow. This doesn't mean the Chinese think that the Russians will break relations, but their strong alignment today could diminish.”

Top White House China adviser to former U.S. President George W. Bush

21 Feb 2025 8 3

Mike Waltz

Inserted 1 month ago

“He needs to come back to the table. President Trump is obviously very frustrated right now with President Zelensky, the fact that he hasn't come to the table, that he hasn't been willing to take this opportunity that we have offered.”

Trump's national-security adviser

20 Feb 2025 3 1

Vladimir Putin

Inserted 1 month ago

“It will take time to set up a summit with Trump. But we are in such a situation that it is not enough to meet to have tea, coffee, sit and talk about the future. We need to ensure that our teams prepare issues that are extremely important for both the United States and Russia, including - but not only - on the Ukrainian track, in order to reach solutions acceptable to both sides.”

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President of Russia

19 Feb 2025 2 2

Andrii Sybiha

Inserted 1 month ago

“No one could force his country to give in. We will defend our right to exist.”

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Minister for Foreign Affairs of Ukraine

19 Feb 2025 2 3

Boris Bondarev

Inserted 1 month ago

“Trump doesn't care much about long-term strategic goals. Putin is trying to play on this feeling and get him interested in very quick material gains that are immediately clear to Trump.”

Former Russian diplomat

19 Feb 2025 4 4

Donald Trump

Inserted 1 month ago

“Think of it, a modestly successful comedian, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, talked the United States of America into spending $350 Billion Dollars, to go into a War that couldn't be won, that never had to start, but a War that he, without the U.S. and “TRUMP,” will never be able to settle. The United States has spent $200 Billion Dollars more than Europe, and Europe's money is guaranteed, while the United States will get nothing back. Why didn't Sleepy Joe Biden demand Equalization, in that this War is far more important to Europe than it is to us - We have a big, beautiful Ocean as separation. On top of this, Zelenskyy admits that half of the money we sent him is “MISSING.” He refuses to have Elections, is very low in Ukrainian Polls, and the only thing he was good at was playing Biden “like a fiddle.” A Dictator without Elections, Zelenskyy better move fast or he is not going to have a Country left. In the meantime, we are successfully negotiating an end to the War with Russia, something all admit only “TRUMP,” and the Trump Administration, can do. Biden never tried, Europe has failed to bring Peace, and Zelenskyy probably wants to keep the “gravy train” going. I love Ukraine, but Zelenskyy has done a terrible job, his Country is shattered, and MILLIONS have unnecessarily died - And so it continues…..”

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President of the United States

19 Feb 2025 6 4

Steve Witkoff

Inserted 1 month ago

“The meeting was positive, upbeat, constructive. Everybody was there to get to the right outcome.”

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President Donald Trump’s Middle East envoy

18 Feb 2025 1 3

Marco Rubio

Inserted 1 month ago

“Ending the war in Ukraine could unlock the door for incredible opportunities that exist to partner with the Russians geopolitically on issues of common interest and, frankly, economically on issues that hopefully will be good for the world and also improve our relations in the long term.”

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U.S. Secretary of State

18 Feb 2025 5 4

Sergey Lavrov

Inserted 1 month ago

“We explained today that the deployment of any troops, any armed forces from NATO countries but under other flags, either the European Union or national flags, changes nothing in this context. For us, of course, this is unacceptable.”

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Russian Foreign Minister

18 Feb 2025 3 4

Marco Rubio

Inserted 1 month ago

“Russia and the United States have agreed to restore their embassies in Moscow and Washington to previous staffing levels to facilitate continued diplomatic engagement. We will need active work of diplomatic missions capable of functioning normally to be able to continue these contacts.”

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U.S. Secretary of State

18 Feb 2025 4 2

Jana Puglierin

Inserted 1 month ago

“February 2022 destroyed our faith in a collective security order with Russia and showed us the dark side of our fundamental dependence on Russia and China in critical areas. February 2025 shows us that the Americans no longer feel responsible for European security - and that their interests are fundamentally different from ours.”

Head of the European Council on Foreign Relations think-tank

18 Feb 2025 6 4

Volodymyr Zelenskiy

Inserted 1 month ago

“Ukraine, Europe in a broad sense - and this includes the European Union, Turkiye, and the UK - should be involved in conversations and the development of the necessary security guarantees with America regarding the fate of our part of the world.”

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President of Ukraine

18 Feb 2025 4 3

Mariia Mezentseva

Inserted 1 month ago

“It's not yet very clear how this negotiating table will look. But defence and justice must be at the forefront of any solution to end the war, and the US, Europe and Ukraine must be on board. It's not Russia who can dictate the rules because they are the invaders. It has to be absolutely [reversed].”

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Head of Ukraine’s delegation to the Council of Europe’s Parliamentary Assembly

18 Feb 2025 4 4

Ian Garner

Inserted 1 month ago

“Europe has spent more time discussing, making statements, and making calls than actually putting its money where its mouth is and stepping up to give concrete support to Ukraine or to pursue any other policy of its own choosing. Everybody is technically on the same page. The problem is when you actually look at finer details of the plans, everybody disagrees. All these European leaders are still trapped in potential maybes. Nobody has come up with a cohesive, comprehensive, and collaborative plan to say, 'Here's what we would actually be willing to definitely do.' And so, of course, Trump, Putin, and even Zelenskyy don't take Europe seriously.”

Russian expert at the Warsaw-based Pilecki Institute

17 Feb 2025 4 3

Majda Ruge

Inserted 1 month ago

“There seems to be a group of EU countries who are clear that they are not going to be part of a poorly designed and hasty Trump deal, and who are focused on continuing their support to Ukraine.”

Senior policy fellow at the Berlin-based European Council on Foreign Relations

17 Feb 2025 3 3

Abdulaziz Alghashian

Inserted 1 month ago

“Many people are preparing themselves for something very negative on the horizon in regards to the ongoing yet fragile Gaza ceasefire. I think they sense that Netanyahu is someone who's really confident, especially after leaving Washington [and] getting a great deal of support from the White House for his dream of pushing people out of Palestine. The emboldened Israeli prime minister might, at some point, try to draw the United States into attacking Iranian nuclear facilities. Netanyahu is trying to create a great deal of instability so he could prolong his political career.”

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Senior fellow at the Observer Research Foundation Middle East

17 Feb 2025 7 2

Steve Witkoff

Inserted 1 month ago

“I am going tonight [to Saudi Arabia]. I'll be traveling there with the national security advisor, and we'll be having meetings at the direction of the president, and hopefully we'll make some really good progress.”

President Donald Trump’s Middle East envoy

16 Feb 2025 4 3

Friedrich Merz

Inserted 1 month ago

“I'm hearing from the one-on-ones and the meetings here at the conference that there is a lack of German leadership within the European Union, and I fully agree with those who are demanding leadership from Germany, and frankly I'm willing to do that because I'm seeing that Germany is in a strategic position at the centre of Europe; that so many things in Europe depends on Germany.”

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Chairman of Germany's center-right Christian Democratic Union (CDU)

15 Feb 2025 3 4

Volodymyr Zelenskiy

Inserted 1 month ago

“Ukraine will never accept deals made behind our backs without our involvement. No decisions about Ukraine without Ukraine. No decisions about Europe without Europe.”

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President of Ukraine

15 Feb 2025 3 2

Keith Kellog

Inserted 1 month ago

“You've got to bring the allies with you. Are they going to play a part? Of course they are. You can't do it at the exclusion of anyone. We want to make sure it's lasting and it's sustainable peace.”

Trump-nominated Ukraine-Russia envoy

15 Feb 2025 3 2

Volodymyr Zelenskiy

Inserted 1 month ago

“I also will not take NATO membership for Ukraine off the table. But right now, the most influential member of NATO seems to be Putin because his whims have the power to block NATO decisions. And that's despite the fact that it was Ukraine's army that stopped Russia - not a NATO country, not NATO troops, but only our people and army. I am proud of Ukraine. I am proud of our people. But now, I ask you - each of you - to honestly answer this question: If Russia came for you, could your army fight the same way? I don't want anyone to ever have to find out - God forbid. That's why we are talking about security guarantees. And that's why we believe that the core of any security guarantees for Ukraine must be NATO membership. Or - if not that - then conditions that allow us to build another NATO right here in Ukraine.”

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President of Ukraine

15 Feb 2025 5 3

Olaf Scholz

Inserted 1 month ago

“There will only be peace if Ukraine's sovereignty is secured. A dictated peace will therefore never find our support. Germany will not accept any solution of the protracted conflict that only leads to a decoupling of European and US security. Only one person would benefit from this: President Putin.”

Chancellor of Germany

15 Feb 2025 6 5

Jean-Noel Barrot

Inserted 1 month ago

“Freedom of expression is guaranteed in Europe. Nobody is obliged to adopt our model, but nobody can impose theirs on us.”

French Foreign Minister

14 Feb 2025 4 3

Janine Di Giovanni

Inserted 1 month ago

“We are living in an age of very dark impunity where war criminals are getting away with it. Benjamin Netanyahu went to Washington, DC, [to meet with US officials]. He has an arrest warrant at The Hague. He is laughing at international law. I cannot believe what we are witnessing now. It's almost as though we have absolutely let accountability go.”

Aje

Director of the Reckoning Project

14 Feb 2025 9 1

Andrii Sybiha

Inserted 1 month ago

“I thanked Secretary Rubio for reaffirming that the US remains committed to supporting Ukraine. Achieving a comprehensive, just and lasting peace is our shared interest.”

Aje

Minister for Foreign Affairs of Ukraine

13 Feb 2025 5 2

Ilya Grashchenkov

Inserted 1 month ago

“The call with Mr. Trump made Mr. Putin's repeated doubling down on the Ukraine war look like a successful bet in a casino. Russia absorbed huge losses in Ukraine, gambling that, eventually, the global paradigm would change and the West would tire of supporting the country. This change has happened, and now it is unclear how this bet will play out in the future.”

Analyst of Russian politics based in Moscow

13 Feb 2025 6 3

Tatiana Stanovaya

Inserted 1 month ago

“Putin's patience has paid off. Many high-level figures within Russia's diplomatic and security circles were increasingly frustrated with the initial statements and approaches of Trump and his team on Ukraine. Trump's 'plans' appeared not just unacceptable but outright hostile…. Nevertheless, Putin chose patience, working steadily to ingratiate himself with Trump - being accommodating, showing flexibility, and projecting a willingness to compromise. Now, he has secured the first step: the launch of substantial negotiations. I'm highly skeptical about the prospects of these talks. Trump wants a cease-fire and some kind of arrangement that would sideline the Ukraine issue for a while. But his vision still differs radically from Putin's. For Putin, a real solution means a Ukraine that is 'friendly' to Russia - deprived of military capability, has a rewritten constitution, and guarantees non-membership in NATO. Make no mistake - Putin is fully prepared for these talks to fail. From the Kremlin's perspective, there is nothing the West can do that would reverse Russia's territorial gains and prevent Ukraine's collapse in the long run.”

Founder of the political analysis firm R.Politik

13 Feb 2025 8 3

Alexandra Prokopenko

Inserted 1 month ago

“Two tough guys, Putin and Trump, just talked. And the ones who should be worried are in the EU. A chance to negotiate directly with the U.S. suits Putin perfectly. From the Kremlin's perspective, the Western coalition would fail if its biggest player stepped out.”

Fellow at the Carnegie Russia Eurasia Center in Berlin

13 Feb 2025 7 4

Volodymyr Zelenskiy

Inserted 1 month ago

“We discussed many aspects - diplomatic, military, economic - and President Trump informed me of what Putin had told him. We believe that America's strength is sufficient to pressure Russia and Putin into peace, together with us, together with all our partners.”

President of Ukraine

12 Feb 2025 5 3

Pete Hegseth

Inserted 1 month ago

“We want, like you, a sovereign and prosperous Ukraine. But we must start by recognizing that returning to Ukraine's pre-2014 borders is an unrealistic objective. To be clear as part of any security guarantee, there will not be U.S. troops deployed to Ukraine.”

US Secretary of Defense

12 Feb 2025 2 3

Hashem Ahelbarra

Inserted 1 month ago

“Hegseth said very clearly today that from now onwards, the Europeans have to understand that given stark geopolitical developments globally, the Americans won't be primarily focused on Europe's security. There are other challenges. And on top of that agenda is China's growing economic and military clout globally, which the Americans would like to counter.”

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Al Jazeera’s journalist reporting from Brussels, Belgium

12 Feb 2025 6 2

Valeria Moy

Inserted 1 month ago

“When Mr. Trump imposed tariffs in his first term - 25 percent on steel and 10 percent on aluminum - Mexico retaliated with countertariffs on key American products, including pork, apples, cheese, cranberries, bourbon whiskey and Harley Davidson motorcycles. The tariffs were lifted about a year later with the signing of the revised free trade agreement among the United States, Canada and Mexico. While the short-lived tariffs on steel and aluminum did not lead to significant gains for American manufacturers, it is not surprising that Mr. Trump was considering turning to them again. It represents a win that's easy for Trump to communicate. It benefits - in the short term - an industry that's become emblematic in the United States.”

General director of the Mexican Institute for Competitiveness

11 Feb 2025 7 4

Benjamin Netanyahu

Inserted 1 month ago

“If Hamas does not return our hostages by Saturday noon [10:00 GMT], the ceasefire will end, and the [Israeli army] will return to intense fighting until Hamas is finally defeated.”

Prime Minister of Israel

11 Feb 2025 3 4

Adman Hayajneh

Inserted 1 month ago

“Jordan will survive economically if the US cuts aid over its refusal to accept forcibly displaced Palestinians from Gaza. The main pillar of Jordan's foreign policy is to establish a Palestinian state, not American aid. The most important things are intelligence cooperation, military cooperation, the use of military bases by US personnel. There are so many cards Jordan's government can play against the Trump policies. Trump tried to play this against Jordan during his first term when he tried to implement the so-called deal of the century. What's happening now is a continuation of that. The whole concept is to let the Israelis take over all of Palestine.”

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Professor of international relations at Qatar University

11 Feb 2025 9 3

Boris Gryzlov

Inserted 1 month ago

“Minsk-2 became possible exclusively thanks to Russia's mediation. At the same time, Russia - it should be emphasized - has never even legally been a party to the conflict. Nevertheless, as a participant in the trilateral contact group, our country contributed with all its might to a peace settlement, for which, as it seemed at the time, both international legal and political conditions had been created. It is crucial to recognize that if the provisions of the document had been fully and effectively implemented, the Ukrainian crisis would not have escalated to the extent witnessed on the eve of the special military operation. Ukraine would have maintained its territorial integrity and sovereignty, enabling it to develop successfully. In simple terms, it would have continued to exist as a sovereign state.”

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Russian ambassador to Belarus

11 Feb 2025 4 2

Volodymyr Zelenskiy

Inserted 1 month ago

“There are voices which say that Europe could offer security guarantees without the Americans, and I always say no. Security guarantees without America are not real security guarantees. Those who are helping us to save Ukraine will [have the chance to] renovate it, with their businesses together with Ukrainian businesses. All these things we are ready to speak about in detail.”

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President of Ukraine

11 Feb 2025 7 3

Donald Trump

Inserted 1 month ago

“I want to have our money secured because we're spending hundreds of billions of dollars.... I told them I want the equivalent of like $500 billion worth of rare earth and they've essentially agreed to do that. And, you know, they may make a deal, they may not make a deal, they may be Russian some day, or they may not be Russian some day, but we're going to have all this money in there and I say we're going to want it back.”

President of the United States

10 Feb 2025 5 3

Christopher Luxon

Inserted 1 month ago

“Under our constitutional arrangements, we expect, you know, matters of defense and security to be transparently discussed between partners. That's all we're asking for here.”

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Prime Minister of New Zealand

Read the Background

10 Feb 2025 5 2

Dritero Arifi

Inserted 1 month ago

“Even though [LVV] is the winner, they suffered quite a decline [in support, 50.28 percent in 2021]. This shows the citizens' distrust toward the ruling party. There will be a major battle over how the government is formed. It is not clear if Kurti will be able to quickly put together a coalition or if the country will suffer through several months of negotiations and uncertainty. There is a lot of uncertainty. [The LVV] is a party that does not shift from its initial positions and will have a hard time relinquishing power.”