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  • Russian rouble, stocks surge after Trump-Putin call

    02/13/2025 10:09:32 AM PST · by marcusmaximus · 5 replies
    Reuters Investing ZA ^ | 2/13/2025 | Gleb Bryanski
    The Russian rouble and stocks surged on Thursday after a telephone conversation between U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin in which the two leaders discussed ways to end the Ukraine war. Hit by Western sanctions, Russian assets plummeted after the start of the war almost three years ago. Once a favourite play in emerging markets globally, most of them are now off-limits for Western investors. The rouble closed up 3.7% at 90.50 against the dollar, the highest level for the Russian currency since September 2024, according to data from the over-the-counter market. The rouble briefly touched the...
  • Ukraine to participate in peace talks 'one way or another', Kremlin says

    02/13/2025 8:28:00 AM PST · by marcusmaximus · 9 replies
    Jerusalem Post ^ | 2/13/2025 | Reuters
    Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Thursday that Ukraine would participate "one way or another" in any talks to end the war, but there would be a separate US-Russian track to the talks, Russian state news agency TASS reported. Another agency, Interfax, quoted Peskov as saying that preparation for a meeting between presidents Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump could take up to several months, but both sides agreed the Saudi capital Riyadh was a suitable location.
  • Turncoat Mike Pence Attacks President Trump Again – This Time as Trump Works to Bring Peace to Ukraine

    02/13/2025 7:13:10 AM PST · by Macho MAGA Man · 51 replies
    Gateway Pundit ^ | February 13, 2025 | Jim Hoft
    The last time we heard from Turncoat Mike Pence he was urging Republican Senators to block Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.’s Senate confirmation. Before that, Pence said he was “literally praying” that Trump would not pardon the innocent January 6 political prisoners. Now, Pence is spouting off trashing President Trump for working to bring peace to Ukraine. Who’s paying this guy? President Trump held calls with Russian President Putin and Ukrainian President Zelensky on Wednesday. Trump is expected to hold meetings with Vladimir Putin in Saudi Arabia. And there is talk that Trump was invited to Russia for talks. Mike Pence...
  • China Tries to Play the Role of Peacemaker in Ukraine

    02/13/2025 5:28:00 AM PST · by marcusmaximus · 12 replies
    Wall Street Journal ^ | 2/13/2025 | Lingling Wei, Alexander Ward, Laurence Norman
    As President Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin signal they are prepared to start negotiations to end the war in Ukraine, China is pushing to play a role. Chinese officials in recent weeks have floated a proposal to the Trump team through intermediaries to hold a summit between the two leaders and to facilitate peacekeeping efforts after an eventual truce, according to people in Beijing and Washington familiar with the matter. -snip- Part of China’s proposal to assist a Russia-Ukraine peace deal involves Beijing acting as a “guarantor” by sending peacekeeping troops to the region, the people familiar said.
  • Ukraine sanctions ex-president Poroshenko, freezes his assets

    02/13/2025 4:28:45 AM PST · by marcusmaximus · 14 replies
    Reuters Yahoo News ^ | 2/13/2025 | Anastasiia Malenko
    Ukraine has imposed sanctions on former president and opposition politician Petro Poroshenko, including asset freezes and a ban on withdrawing capital from the country, a presidential decree published on Thursday said. Poroshenko, one of Ukraine's richest men who heads the largest opposition party in Ukraine's parliament, served as president from 2014 until 2019 when he lost his bid for a second term at an election won by President Volodymyr Zelenskiy. The decree did not say why the sanctions were imposed, but Zelenskiy said earlier that his security council would announce sanctions targeting people who had undermined Ukrainian national security. "The...
  • China proposes Putin-Trump summit to end Ukraine war, WSJ reports

    02/13/2025 4:16:47 AM PST · by marcusmaximus · 9 replies
    Reuters MSN ^ | 2/13/2025 | Mei Mei Chu and Ryan Woo
    China has floated a proposal to hold a summit between Russian President Vladimir Putin and U.S. President Donald Trump to help end the Ukraine war, the Wall Street Journal reported, citing people familiar with the matter. Chinese officials in recent weeks have raised a proposal with the Trump team through intermediaries to hold a summit between the two leaders and to facilitate peacekeeping efforts after an eventual truce, according to people in Beijing and Washington cited by the newspaper. Asked about the newspaper report at a regular news conference on Thursday, a Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson said he had "no...
  • Suing USAID for stopping the funding of the LGBT Association League in Odessa.

    02/13/2025 12:36:22 AM PST · by Reverend Wright · 30 replies
    TWitter ^ | Feb 12, 2025 | Lord Beto
    I ASK THE COURT: 1. To recognize as unlawful the termination of funding of the LGBT Association "LIGA" in Odesa by USAID representatives. 2. To oblige the defendant to restore the financing of the organization in the amount sufficient to fulfill its statutory tasks. 3 Take measures to prevent similar violations in the future.
  • France, Germany, Poland, Italy, Spain & UK sign a joint statement vowing to protect Ukraine’s sovereignty & demanding a role in the peace talks

    02/12/2025 6:23:22 PM PST · by ransomnote · 24 replies
    BlueSky ^ | Feb 12, 2025 | Weimar+ via News Eye ‪@newseye.bsky.social‬
    ransomnote: I was able to confirm this communication is real; here's a link to the French government website. I doubt the globalists have ever been this desperate before in their lives.https://www.diplomatie.gouv.fr/en/country-files/ukraine/news/article/weimar-statement-france-germany-poland-italy-spain-united-kingdom-ukraine-hrvpFebruary 12, 2025
  • Former Ukraine President Poroshenko says sanctions imposed on him

    02/12/2025 5:42:43 PM PST · by marcusmaximus · 6 replies
    Al Arabiya ^ | 2/12/2025 | Reuters
    Former President Petro Poroshenko said on Wednesday that Ukraine’s National Security and Defense Council had adopted sanctions against him, and he accused current President Volodymyr Zelenskyy of undermining national unity. “The National Security and Defense Council has adopted an unconstitutional, politically motivated decision - to introduce sanctions against me, Petro Poroshenko as the leader of the opposition and the fifth president,” Poroshenko said in a statement. “Zelenskyy today struck a colossal blow to our internal unity which...has been our main weapon in the fight against the aggressor,” he said, referring to Russia’s nearly three-year-old invasion of Ukraine. Zelenskyy, who won...
  • President Trump Delivers Remarks to Press Pool: Ukraine, Zelenskyy, Putin, Pending Saudi Summit, DOGE and More

    02/12/2025 4:25:11 PM PST · by SoConPubbie · 4 replies
    The Last Refuge ^ | February 12, 2025 | Sundance
    President Trump delivered some rather remarkable filler information today surrounding the phone calls between himself, President Putin and President Zelenskyy. The remarks, which should not be missed, come at the conclusion of the Tulsi Gabbard swearing in ceremony. [09:45 video, prompted]The first question received was about the Russia v Ukraine conflict and the conversations with Zelenskyy and Putin. President Trump outlined that the first meeting to end the conflict will likely take place between himself and Vladimir Putin in Saudi Arabia as organized through the intermediary, Mohammed Bin Salman (MbS). [11:45]President Trump noted there was unlikely to be any NATO...
  • President Trump to start negotiations "immediately" to end Russia/Ukraine War

    02/12/2025 1:42:49 PM PST · by RandFan · 7 replies
    X ^ | Feb 12 | Donald Trump
  • Trump: US, Russia Agree to Start Talks on Ending Ukraine War

    02/12/2025 12:55:06 PM PST · by Navy Patriot · 12 replies
    Newsmax ^ | February 12, 2025 | Newsmax Wires
    President Donald Trump said he spoke with Russian President Vladimir Putin Wednesday about starting negotiations "immediately" to end the war in Ukraine. Trump said in a social media post that he and Putin held a lengthy phone call during which they committed to “work together, very closely” to bring the conflict to an end and would meet in person, including perhaps in each other's countries. It was unclear how closely Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy would be involved. Although Trump held a phone call with him Wednesday, Ukrainian presidential adviser Dmytro Lytvyn said, characterizing it as a "good conversation." Trump's prioritization...
  • Russian President Vladimir Putin invites Donald Trump to Moscow to discuss ending the war in Ukraine after ‘lengthy’ phone call

    02/12/2025 1:00:22 PM PST · by SeekAndFind · 24 replies
    Sky News ^ | 02/12/2025 | Lawrence Karacsony
    US President Donald Trump has been invited to Moscow by Russian leader Vladimir Putin as they discussed ending the war in Ukraine during a phone call on Wednesday. Russian President Vladimir Putin has invited United States President Donald Trump to Moscow in a major step forward in ending the war in Ukraine. On Wednesday, the US and Russian leaders held a phone call in which they discussed a variety of topics including the conflict, and the potential of future cooperation between the US and Russia. During the phone call, the pair agreed to meet in the future, with Putin inviting...
  • Secretary Hegseth: Ukraine Can’t Return to Old Borders, Will Not Be Part of NATO – Europeans Must Bear the Security Burden With No US Troops Acting as Peacemakers (VIDEO)

    02/12/2025 12:20:08 PM PST · by Macho MAGA Man · 61 replies
    Gateway Pundit ^ | February 12, 2025 | Paul Serran
    Reuters reported: “Speaking at a meeting of Ukraine’s military allies at NATO headquarters in Brussels on Wednesday, Hegseth delivered the clearest and bluntest public statement so far on the new U.S. administration’s approach to the nearly three-year-old war. ‘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’, Hegseth told the meeting of Ukrainian officials and more than 40 allies. ‘Chasing this illusionary goal will only prolong the war and cause more suffering’, he added.” “He also told Washington’s NATO allies that they would have...
  • Hegseth tells NATO that a return to Ukraine's 2014 borders is 'unrealistic'

    02/12/2025 9:43:54 AM PST · by ransomnote · 7 replies
    nbcnews.com ^ | 2/12/2025 | Alexander Smith
    Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said Wednesday that it is “unrealistic” to aim for a return to Ukraine’s borders as they were before 2014, when Russia annexed Crimea and supported separatists who took over swaths of the country’s east.SNIP“To be clear, as part of any security guarantee, there will not be U.S. troops deployed to Ukraine,” he said.SNIPTrump will seek to pressure the Kremlin by “unleashing American energy production” and thus throttling Russian exports that fund its war machine, Hegseth said. But he made clear that European nations would be required to provide most of the military support for Ukraine —...
  • President Trump Outlines His Phone Call with President Vladimir Putin

    02/12/2025 10:20:00 AM PST · by SoConPubbie · 59 replies
    The Last Refuge ^ | February 12, 202 | Sundance
    President Donald Trump posts a brief outline of a conversation with Russian President Vladimir Putin to his Truth Social Account.President Trump: “I just had a lengthy and highly productive phone call with President Vladimir Putin of Russia. We discussed Ukraine, the Middle East, Energy, Artificial Intelligence, the power of the Dollar, and various other subjects. We both reflected on the Great History of our Nations, and the fact that we fought so successfully together in World War II, remembering, that Russia lost tens of millions of people, and we, likewise, lost so many!We each talked about the strengths of our...
  • Trump discusses Ukraine war with Putin, Zelenskiy

    02/12/2025 10:07:13 AM PST · by marcusmaximus · 19 replies
    Reuters Yahoo News ^ | 2/12/2025 | Katharine Jackson, Doina Chiacu
    Donald Trump discussed the war in Ukraine on Wednesday in phone calls with Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy, the new U.S. president's first big step towards diplomacy over a war he has promised to end. In a post on his social media platform, Trump said he and Putin had "agreed to have our respective teams start negotiations immediately, and we will begin by calling President Zelenskiy, of Ukraine, to inform him of the conversation, something which I will be doing right now." Zelenskiy's office said Trump and Zelenskiy had spoken by phone for about an hour....
  • 🚨New from President Trump after phone call with President Vladimir Putin:

    02/12/2025 9:38:48 AM PST · by Macho MAGA Man · 49 replies
    Benny Johnson on Twitter X ^ | February 12, 2025 | Benny Johnson
    Benny Johnson @bennyjohnson 🚨New from President Trump after phone call with President Vladimir Putin: 11:26 AM · Feb 12, 2025
  • Ukraine Offers Cash and Other Financial Incentives for Joining Short-Handed Military

    02/12/2025 9:03:18 AM PST · by ChicagoConservative27 · 19 replies
    Breitbart ^ | 02/12/2025 | Breitbart London
    KYIV, Ukraine (AP) – Ukraine’s Defense Ministry is offering new financial and other benefits that it hopes will attract men between ages 18 and 24 to military service, as its short-handed armed forces toil on the front line against Russia’s bigger army in the almost three-year war. Men in that age group are currently exempt from the country’s draft, which covers men between 25 and 60 years old. Last spring, Ukraine lowered the conscription age from 27 to 25, but that has failed to replenish ranks or replace battlefield losses. Also, some draft-age men have moved abroad, while desertions have...
  • Ukraine regaining pre-2014 borders is 'unrealistic objective,' Hegseth says in first NATO visit

    02/12/2025 7:08:16 AM PST · by marcusmaximus · 42 replies
    Fox News ^ | 2/12/2025 | Greg Norman , Lucas Y. Tomlinson
    -snip- Hegseth continued. "We want a sovereign and prosperous Ukraine. But we must start by recognizing that returning to Ukraine’s pre-2014 borders is an unrealistic objective. Chasing this illusionary goal will only prolong the war and cause more suffering." -snip- "A durable peace for Ukraine must include robust security guarantees to ensure that the war will not begin again," Hegseth said Wednesday. "The United States does not believe that NATO membership for Ukraine is a realistic outcome of a negotiated settlement. Instead, any security guarantee must be backed by capable European and non-European troops." "If these troops are deployed as...