#Putin

Trump-nominated Ukraine-Russia envoy

08 Jan 2025 10 3

Antony Blinken

Inserted 6 days ago

“The DPRK has already received Russian military equipment and training. Now we have reasons to believe that Moscow intends to share advanced space and satellite technology with Pyongyang. Putin may be close to reversing its decades-long policy by accepting the DPRK's nuclear weapon programs.”

Koreatimes

U.S. Secretary of State

06 Jan 2025 7 5

Antony Blinken

Inserted 6 days ago

“If and when talks finally start, Kyiv would still need adequate security assurances against Putin. There is going to be, at some point, a cease-fire. It's not going to be in Putin's mind 'game over'. His imperial ambitions remain, and what he will seek to do is to rest, refit, and eventually re-attack.”

U.S. Secretary of State

06 Jan 2025 7 5

Constantin Borosan

Inserted 1 week ago

“These people lived on subsidized gas from Russia. Now it looks as if Russia has abandoned them. Gazprom had ignored suggestions from Moldova that it could, using an alternate export route under the Black Sea, still get gas to Transnistria - if the Kremlin wanted. I don't know what is going on in the head of Putin.”

Moldova’s secretary of state for energy

05 Jan 2025 8 4

Shaun Walker

Inserted 1 week ago

“Putin wants to seize, at the very least, the territory he already controls, and also has demands over Ukrainian neutrality and disarmament that would be impossible for any Ukrainian leader to sell politically. Zelenskyy, meanwhile, has admitted that painful compromises may be necessary, but insisted that, in return, he would need some form of meaningful security guarantee against subsequent Russian escalation, such as a promise of Nato membership or western peacekeepers on the ground. Neither option currently looks likely.”

Theguardian

Guardian's central and eastern Europe correspondent

04 Jan 2025 12 3

Volodymyr Zelenskiy

Inserted 1 week ago

“Trump could be crucial. This is the most important thing for us. He, his qualities - they are there. He could be crucial in this war. He is able to stop Putin, or to be more fair, to help us stop Putin. He can do it.”

President of Ukraine

02 Jan 2025 4 2

Sergei Guriev

Inserted 1 week ago

“The idea that economic sanctions could bring a quick end to the war was always more a product of hope than a realistic assessment. A better measure of success is to ask whether sanctions hampered Moscow's ability to wage war effectively. And the answer to that is yes. Imagine a world where sanctions were not introduced. A world where Russia's foreign commerce was not severely limited and it had access to all of its frozen foreign reserves. It's very clear that sanctions did cause problems for Putin, did reduce the amount of resources in his pocket and, therefore, saved lives in Ukraine. Without them, he added, Russia might have even won the war by now.”

Russian economist who fled the country in 2013 and is now the dean of the London Business School

02 Jan 2025 6 4

Andrii Sybiha

Inserted 1 week ago

“Ukraine has cut off more than just Russian gas transit. We have cut off some of Putin's last remaining leverage over Europe and his use of energy as a weapon. Europe and the world will be safer without Russian gas, oil, and other dependencies, as well as without Russia itself.”

Minister for Foreign Affairs of Ukraine

02 Jan 2025 6 2

Volodymyr Zelenskiy

Inserted 1 week ago

“More than 25 years ago, when Putin was given power in Russia, over 130 billion cubic metres of gas were pumped annually through Ukraine to Europe. Today, the transit of Russian gas is 0. This is one of Moscow's biggest defeats. Weaponising energy and resorting to cynical energy blackmail of partners have cost Russia its most attractive and geographically accessible market.”

President of Ukraine

01 Jan 2025 7 3

Lars Klingbeil

Inserted 1 week ago

“Elon Musk is attempting nothing less than Vladimir Putin. Both Putin and Musk want to see anti-democratic forces succeed in the elections, causing Germany to be plunged into chaos.”

Politico

SPD (Social Democrats) Secretary-General

30 Dec 2024 (approx) 4 4

Mark Galeotti

Inserted 1 week ago

“What Putin is saying though is that the terms of that deal, which envisaged an essentially neutered Ukraine - not just barred from joining NATO, but also demilitarized, and thus a very, very easy target for Russia in the future…has to essentially be at the center of any future peace deal. He's trying to make this process as awkward as possible, while making it sound as if he's as flexible as possible.”

Director of the consultancy Mayak Intelligence

22 Dec 2024 6 3

Donald Trump

Inserted 3 weeks ago

“One of the things I want to do, and quickly, and President Putin said that he wants to meet with me as soon as possible… We have to wait for this; we have to end this war. This war is horrible. This war would have never happened if I was president. I will end the war in Ukraine. I will stop the chaos in the Middle East. I will prevent, I promise, World War III. We are very close to World War III.”

US President-elect

22 Dec 2024 7 4

Michal Simecka

Inserted 3 weeks ago

“Fico's trip to meet Putin is a shame for Slovakia and a betrayal of national interests. If the prime minister actually cared about gas transit, he should have negotiated with Ukraine rather than turning Slovakia into a tool of Putin's propaganda.”

Leader of Progressive Slovakia

22 Dec 2024 5 4

Patrick Turner

Inserted 3 weeks ago

“The alliance [NATO] is constantly assessing nuclear threats around the clock and recent sabre rattling by Putin has not changed actual Russian nuclear policy. We do not think that at the moment there is a real increase in the threat of nuclear use by Russia. And we don't think it's useful to spend our time talking about Russian nuclear threats because of the sabre rattling by Putin.”

Aje

Senior NATO Representative to Ukraine

20 Dec 2024 5 4

Olaf Scholz

Inserted 3 weeks ago

“I have spoken to the Russian president and will speak to him again. Germany would not let up our support of Ukraine. Efforts needed to be made to find a sustainable, durable peace for Ukraine. Nothing must be decided over the heads of the Ukrainians. Russia must not win this war.”

Aje

Chancellor of Germany

20 Dec 2024 4 4

Ralph Goff

Inserted 3 weeks ago

“Unlike Ukraine, Russia can fire long-range missiles that can hit anywhere, and were likely using their operatives for intelligence gathering and weapons targeting, rather than assassinations. For the Ukrainians, carrying out assassinations, is a strategy of necessity because it's all they got. The Ukrainians see an opportunity here. They're trying to turn the heat up on the Russian elites to force Putin to make a deal. I think it's a flawed strategy. If they're not careful they'll create the opposite effect. They anger the Russians so much that they say we're not interested in negotiating.”

Former senior C.I.A. official

18 Dec 2024 9 3

Volodymyr Zelenskiy

Inserted 3 weeks ago

“Who else in Europe has such experience? No one. Does Orbán have such an army? No. How would he put pressure on Putin? With a joke, a smile? He can keep it. Prime Minister Orbán, who wants to [achieve peace for Ukraine], you know, 'somehow, somewhere…' will not work. I won't let him or people like him handle this.”

President of Ukraine

17 Dec 2024 5 4

Max Bergmann

Inserted 1 week ago

“The war has tilted in Russia's favor, and Russia is pressing its armaments and manpower advantage relentlessly. There is now little reason for Russia to negotiate, as [Putin] likely believes he can win the war - which, in his view, means the subjugation of Ukraine under Russian control.”

Director of the Europe, Russia, and Eurasia Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington

16 Dec 2024 5 2

Alyona Getmanchuk

Inserted 4 weeks ago

“They want to secure their place on the new U.S. administration's radar. They're trying to establish contacts, build bridges. They're trying to explain to Trump and his people that if there is someone who doesn't want to negotiate now, it's Putin, not Zelensky. Part of the Ukrainian tactic is to show that they're constructive, realist.”