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“Yesterday we sat with Putin almost all day and thought about how we could survive during this difficult time.

Russia is a huge rich empire. It has immeasurable wealth but today we are thinking about how to survive together.”

- Lukashenko

JD Vance: "This is how wars ultimately get settled. If you go back to World War 2, if you go back to every major conflict in human history, they all end with some kind of negotiation."

⚡️Russia opposes European troops in Ukraine under Trump-backed security guarantees, Lavrov says.

Sending European troops to Ukraine as part of security guarantees would amount to "foreign military intervention," which Moscow won't support, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said on Aug. 21.

Budapest? Not everyone may remember this, but in 1994 Ukraine already got assurances of territorial integrity from the US, Russia and the UK. In Budapest. Maybe I’m superstitious, but this time I would try to find another place.

🚨 Independent journalism in Ukraine is under attack.
President Zelensky’s office is pressuring advertisers to pull out from Ukrainska Pravda and blocking officials from speaking to its journalists.

Why does it matter? 🧵