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    Craig Kennedy “Moscow's funding challenges only increase from here, especially if coalition countries enforce more fully the powerful energy sanction tools at their disposal. Through continued resolve and a clear understanding of Moscow's vulnerabilities, Ukraine and its allies can realise the full potential of their negotiating leverage, avoid making unnecessary concessions, and reduce the longer-term risks posed by Russian revanchism.” 1 hour ago
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    Justin Trudeau “The 51st state, that's not going to happen. But people are talking about that, as opposed to talking about what impact 25% tariffs (has) on steel and aluminum coming into the United States. No American wants to pay 25% more for electricity or oil and gas coming in from Canada. That's something I think people need to pay a little more attention to.” 1 hour ago
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#Crimea

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Bryan Lanza
Bryan Lanza

“The Trump administration would ask Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky for his version of a realistic vision for peace. And if President Zelensky comes to the table and says, well we can only have peace if we have Crimea, he shows to us that he's not serious. Crimea is gone. And if that is your priority of getting Crimea back and having American soldiers fight to get Crimea back, you're on your own. What we're going to say to Ukraine is, you know what you see? What do you see as a realistic vision for peace. It's not a vision for winning, but it's a vision for peace. And let's start having the honest conversation. The reality on the ground is that the European nation states and President Biden did not give Ukraine the ability and the arms to win this war at the very beginning and they failed to lift the restrictions for Ukraine to win.”

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Adviser to President-elect Donald Trump
09 Nov 2024 7 5
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Sergey Lavrov
Sergey Lavrov

“The longer the current Ukrainian authorities, backed by the West, undermine various agreements, the less territory this regime has. In February 2014: if they had fulfilled in good faith what they agreed upon, nothing would have happened, and Crimea would be part of Ukraine. But they decided to break the agreement, as they were eager to change the government as soon as possible. By February 2015, the Minsk agreements. If they had honored these agreements, yes, Crimea had already seceded by that time, but Ukraine would have remained within its borders, including all of Donbass. They did not want to do it because they were unwilling to grant a part of Donbass special status, which primarily involves confirming the right of the people living there to speak their language. And the third chance they had was in Istanbul in April 2022. President [of Russia Vladimir Putin] spoke about it in detail. Of course, the current situation is also different from what it was in April 2022.”

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Russian Foreign Minister
02 Nov 2024 7 4
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Ben Hodges
Ben Hodges

“We could be 100 percent clear to the Ukrainians and the Russians that we are 100 percent in favour of them retaking Crimea however they do it. Crimea … is sovereign Ukraine, and there will be no US tapping the brakes if they take down that Kerch Bridge - which I do predict is going to happen this year.”

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Retired U.S. General and former Commander of NATO forces in Europe
20 Sep 2024 3 3
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Ingrida Simonyte
Ingrida Simonyte

“It is a great honour and joy for me to be here today, celebrating Ukraine's independence with the free and unbreakable people of Ukraine. Like the rest of the civilised world, I admire you and am deeply grateful, for by defending your land and statehood, you are defending us all: my homeland, Lithuania, Europe, and the entire democratic world. The day of Ukraine's victory would come. We will celebrate it together in Ukrainian Crimea and free, proud Mariupol; that Ukrainians sheltered in Lithuania will come home and rebuild the cities of Donetsk and Luhansk [which will become part of] the EU and NATO; that Ukrainian children will come back to their homes in Sumy, Kharkiv, and Kherson oblasts, and that Ukrainian defenders will reunite with their loved ones and be back from the battlefield and captivity.”

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Prime Minister of Lithuania
24 Aug 2024 11 2
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Frederik Mertens
Frederik Mertens

“Crimea is vulnerable. The Russians have relatively limited manoeuvre space on the peninsula. Putin has a lot to lose both politically and militarily. So, if a limited number of fighters can have a real impact, it is here - and above the Black Sea that becomes fully accessible once the GBAD [ground-based air defence] on Crimea is dealt with.”

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Analyst at the Hague Centre for Strategic Studies
17 Jun 2024 6 4
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Nikolay Mitrokhin
Nikolay Mitrokhin

“The return of Crimea is absolutely unrealistic. Before the failure of Ukraine's counteroffensive last summer there was a chance to return the annexed peninsula had Ukrainian forces reached the Azov Sea and started shelling the Crimean bridge and the Kerch Strait that divides the Azov and Black seas. But now it's hardly real to penetrate Russian defence farther than the takeover of the Kinburn peninsula.”

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Research Fellow at Bremen University
24 Apr 2024 9 4
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Robert Fico
Robert Fico

“According to international law, we all recognise another country's territorial integrity, sovereignty, and the inviolability of its borders. This is a sound theory of international law. But the Russians will never give up Crimea, Donbas, or Luhansk. There is no military solution and never will be. There will only be 100,000 more dead on one side or the other. The only thing that can help is for NATO to interfere, and this is World War III.”

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Slovak Prime Minister
17 Apr 2024 8 1
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Seth Krummrich
Seth Krummrich

“You have a lot of wounded coming back to Russia who are disillusioned or resentful and you have a lot of people who are not coming back at all. The truth is definitely on the Russian street … this is like radiation or toxicity, slowly building up in the population, and over time it could become lethal to a government.”

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Colonel who has led special forces detachments in Afghanistan and the Middle East - Vice president for Global Guardian
27 Sep 2023 2 2
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Mykhailo Podolyak
Mykhailo Podolyak

“The status of post-Soviet countries is enshrined in international law. It is strange to hear an absurd version of the 'history of Crimea' from a representative of a country that is scrupulous about its 1,000-year history.”

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Advisor to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy
23 Apr 2023 3 2
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Zoran Milanovic
Zoran Milanovic

“I am against sending any lethal arms there. It prolongs the war. What is the goal? Disintegration of Russia, change of the government? There is also talk of tearing Russia apart. This is mad. It is clear that Crimea will never again be part of Ukraine. What is the goal of this war? A war against a nuclear power that is at war in another country? Is there a conventional way to defeat such a country? Who pays the price? Europe. America pays the least,” he said. “A year has passed and we are only now talking about tanks. Not a single American tank will go to Ukraine in a year. Only German tanks will be sent there.”

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Croatian President
30 Jan 2023 6 3
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Alexandre Vautravers
Alexandre Vautravers

“It's very significant, of course. It's not the only efforts the Ukrainians have been achieving quite well. The result of this has been two-fold - one, the Crimea population has been put under alert and this has created panic in Crimea, with people trying to flee this area, which is no longer considered safe. The other one is that this panic has reached Russian high command to the point where mobilisation has been ordered in Crimea, which is interesting, both on a military side of things, but also on a political one, because the Russian Federation is wanting everyone to believe that Crimea is a part of Russia. How can you mobilise only a small segment or area of the country and not call this a general mobilisation for the entire country? It is not clear how many people living in Crimea were still sympathetic to Ukraine. But we know for a fact that there has been a lot of passive resistance, and also individual or group attacks against Russian forces, Russian interests, and Russian command posts. We've seen this in Crimea and we've seen this elsewhere in the country.”

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Editor-in-chief at the Swiss Military Review
20 Aug 2022 2 2
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Mykhailo Podolyak
Mykhailo Podolyak

“The future of the Crimea is to be a pearl of the Black Sea, a national park with unique nature and a world resort, not a military base for terrorists. It is just the beginning.”

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Advisor to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy
09 Aug 2022 3 2
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Ali Khamenei
Ali Khamenei

“War is a violent and difficult issue and the Islamic Republic is in no way happy that civilians get caught up in it, but concerning Ukraine, had you not taken the initiative, the other side would have taken the initiative and caused the war. The West is opposed to a strong and independent Russia. NATO would know no bounds if the way was open to it, and if it was not stopped in Ukraine, it would start the same war using Crimea as an excuse.”

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Iran’s Supreme Leader
19 Jul 2022 5 1
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Dmitry Medvedev
Dmitry Medvedev

“If any other state, be it Ukraine or NATO countries, believes that Crimea is not Russian, then this is a systemic threat for us. This is a direct and an explicit threat, especially given what had happened to Crimea. Crimea returned to Russia.”

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Russian Security Council Deputy Chairman
17 Jul 2022 5 4
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Volodymyr Zelenskiy
Volodymyr Zelenskiy

“I do not believe that we can restore all of our territory [lost to Russia since 2014 including Crimea] by military means. If we decide to go that way, we will lose hundreds of thousands of people.”

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President of Ukraine
29 May 2022 2 2
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Leonid Ragozin
Leonid Ragozin

“If the war ends with Russia occupying all of Luhansk and Donetsk plus retaining control of the land corridor to Crimea, it will be more than enough for Putin to declare a spotless victory. But to cement his victory, the Russian leader will need to convince Ukraine to agree to a truce under such conditions, and that's a totally different story. Ukraine and its Western allies are hoping that under pressure from crippling sanctions Russia will eventually exhaust its military and economic potential and lose the battle.”

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Freelance journalist based in Riga
24 May 2022 8 2
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