telling reporters that Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskiy had told him he was ready to make a deal to end the war.
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He already has a few chances, most notably the Istanbul negotiations, the one where Boris Johnson flew in and nixed the agreement.
President Trump is in charge now.
Nothing will happen until Gabbard takes her position and sterilizes intelligence.
Trump knows all the nuances.
You mean that deal where Russia demanded that Ukraine give up the rest of Luhansk, Donetsk, Kherson, and Zaporizhzhia? The one where Ukraine had to reduce its army to 85,000 troops? The one that Ukraine had to throw out its elected government and install one picked by the Russians? The one where Ukraine could not have any security guarantees from other countries? The one that THEY NEVER AGREED TO, and that no Ukrainian government would ever have agree to? That one? At this point this Russian lie is getting pretty old.
Sounds like the zeepers are pretty mad about the losing of the territory formerly known as Ukrainian.
Putin will require that any deal means the removal of Zelensky. Its unlikely that Zelensky will agree to that so its going to be tough to reach a negotiated settlement IMO.