“I believe our team is simply being used as a smokescreen.”

Substack (Think Big Picture) · Oct 12 · Bipartisan senators press Trump to scrap Russian diesel sanctions waiver

“The Ukrainian negotiating team is due to meet Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff in the US tomorrow. The meeting is expected to last two days.”

France 24 · Kushner, Witkoff to pitch Ukraine peace proposals in Miami talks Friday

“We continue to respond to Russia's attacks on Ukraine, and we're doing so with high precision. We will not surrender our land, our sovereignty, or our state.”

X (via @DakdaR22) · Oct 12 · Zelensky says Ukraine answers Russian strikes with precision, vows no surrender

“If President Trump really wants to have elections, tell Putin give us two months, 60 days of total ceasefire -- 60 days -- and we will organize elections. Of course, we will be ready for any choice of our people.”

ABC News, via atrupar.com on Bluesky · Oct 10 · Zelensky Ties Ukraine Elections to 60-Day Ceasefire; Kremlin Rejects It

“I know that putin wants very much to change the president in Ukraine – I understand it.”

ABC News, via Pravda / Mastodon · Oct 10 · Zelensky Ties Ukraine Elections to 60-Day Ceasefire; Kremlin Rejects It

“Today, Russia expressed its thanks for the lifting of sanctions on diesel exports by dropping five glide bombs on residential buildings in Zaporizhzhia”

X (post), via RTE News · Oct 8 · Trump tells Ukraine to "get a new leader" after Zelensky blasts Russian diesel deal

“We saw documents and we know that they allow them attack infrastructure... logistics... roads, schools, hospitals, to pressure people to leave the capital, leave different cities. This is the goal of the operation.”

Straits Times World · Oct 2 · Zelensky vows to escalate refinery strikes after Russia's 'new doctrine' of strikes

“We have to respond in any way (we can). With their attacks on our energy, we have to respond on their energy. First of all, oil refiners: what gives money to them for this war.”

Straits Times World · Oct 2 · Zelensky vows to escalate refinery strikes after Russia's 'new doctrine' of strikes

“But we will not respond, of course, just like them, on any civilian objects.”

Globe and Mail World · Oct 2 · Zelensky vows to escalate refinery strikes after Russia's 'new doctrine' of strikes

“It's not fair just to normalise.”

Straits Times World · Oct 2 · Zelensky vows to escalate refinery strikes after Russia's 'new doctrine' of strikes