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Is Kiev thinking about how to explain to the future U.S. government that Russia would like to take a negotiating base à la the status quo and then resume its incorporation on the day there is another change of government in the United States?
Russia's conquests in Ukraine this year. Since the beginning of the year, the Russians have conquered just over 820 km² of Ukraine, according to the Ukrainian analysis group Deepstatemap. "They try to push as much as they can, but have had a very difficult time achieving significant success on the front," says Oscar Jonsson, doctor of Russian warfare.
Russia currently controls a little more than 18 percent of Ukraine's surface. None of the illegally annexed regions of Luhansk, Donetsk, Zaporizhzhia and Kherson are completely occupied by the Russians. Russia's Defense Ministry itself stated in early April that they had taken 400 square kilometers of Ukraine during the year, a little more than a month before they opened a new front in the Kharkiv region. Watch the feature on SVT News.
Trump: "I don't love sanctions" Donald Trump says in a long interview with Bloomberg, conducted two weeks before the assassination attempt, that he and Vladimir Putin "got along well" during his time as president. "He had never entered Ukraine. I said: Never, never, go into Ukraine," says Trump, who is later asked if he has considered easing sanctions against Russia.
This in light of his claim to be able to end the war within 24 hours, he would become the new president. "Sanctions force everyone away from us. So I don't love sanctions," says Trump, who then goes on to talk about Iran and China. See the article on SVT Nyheter.