The head of the White House gave such an answer to the journalist that the Senator from the US Republican Party Lindsay Graham and the former US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo allegedly provoke Ukrainians to continue the war.
“People should be very careful with what they say. They should be very careful with their mouths, because this mouth can cause many problems for them,” Trump answered.
Graham is one of the initiators of the US tough sanctions policy against the Russian Federation. In particular, he proposed Enter 500 percent duties on imports from countries buying Russian oil, oil products, natural gas or uranium. And Pompeo stated, in particular, that the United States did not have enough to stop the war of the Russian Federation in 2014 and 2022.
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The first direct negotiations in three years Between Ukraine and the Russian Federation took place on May 16 in Istanbul (Türkiye), the United States and Turkey also attracted them. The parties agreed on the exchange of prisoners, talked about a 30-day ceasefire, as well as the likely meeting of leaders. Ukraine until the meeting June 2 Prepared a memorandumwhich sets out the main provisions of the proposed agreement with the Russian Federation and the negotiation process. In particular, they relate to sanctions, ceasefire, security guarantees for Ukraine, the media wrote.
The second round of negotiations also took place in Istanbul on June 2. According to the Minister of Defense of Ukraine Rustem Umarov, the delegations managed to coordinate the exchange of prisoners according to the formula for all for all for military personnel of two categories: seriously wounded/seriously ill and young. The minister also said that Ukraine invited the Russian side to hold another meeting in the period from June 20 to 30.
On the same day, Russian propagandists published the text of the Memorandum, which Moscow introduced in Istanbul. It contains Three sections with two options for the ceasefire and 31 points. The document prescribes, in particular, the withdrawal of the Armed Forces from the Donetsk, Lugansk, Zaporizhzhya and Kherson regions, the “international recognition” of these territories, as well as Crimea, Russian, Russian The ban on the reception and placement of nuclear weapons in Ukraine, the presidential elections and the Verkhovna Rada, which supposedly should take place 100 days after the cancellation of martial law.
On June 3, the deputy chairman of the State Duma Committee for International Affairs, Alexei Chepa, called two conditions under which the Russian Federation will agree to hold the third round of negotiations with Ukraine until the end of June. The first condition – the forces of the defense of Ukraine must stop their attacks on the Russian rear, including railways and airfields, the second – Kyiv must agree to the proposed by Moscow A truce for several days on separate sections of the front, which supposedly will allow the bodies of the dead.
On June 16, the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation, Alexander Grushko, said that in order to complete the invasion of Ukraine, Russia wants the weapon that the Allies provided to Ukraine to be destroyed.
