🇺🇸🇺🇦🇷🇺⚡️ NEW: Axios reports the U.S. is expecting Ukraine to respond on Wednesday to a peace proposal that would include U.S. recognition of Crimea as Russian territory and acknowledge Russia's control over most of the areas it has occupied since the 2022 invasion, according to sources familiar with the plan.

🇷🇺 What Russia would gain:

— U.S. legal recognition of its control over Crimea
— Informal acknowledgment of its occupation in parts of Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson, and Zaporizhzhia
— A pledge that Ukraine will not join NATO (though EU membership is still possible)
— Removal of post-2014 sanctions
— Increased U.S.-Russia economic cooperation, especially in energy and industry

🇺🇦 What Ukraine would receive:

— Vague “robust security guarantees” via a coalition of European and other countries — with no clear mention of U.S. involvement
— The return of a small area in Kharkiv region
— Free navigation on the Dnieper River
— Reconstruction aid, though funding sources are unclear

📝Additional points:

— The Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant would be under Ukrainian sovereignty but operated by the U.S., supplying power to both sides
— A U.S.-Ukraine minerals agreement is expected to be signed on Thursday

➡️ The proposal was put together after a four-hour meeting between Trump’s envoy, Steve Witkoff, and Putin.

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🏳🚫🗣🇺🇦 — 📰 The Washington Post | High-level Ukraine peace talks in London scratched after U.S. pullout | Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s last-minute decision to cancel means there will be no foreign ministers meeting in London for Ukraine peace talks, but presidential envoy Steve Witkoff will still go to Moscow | April 23, 2025:

"LONDON — European diplomats pulled the plug on high-level talks set for Wednesday about ending Russia’s war in Ukraine after top U.S. diplomats abruptly canceled plans to attend.

The disruption comes amid anger in Washington over Ukraine’s reluctance to accept controversial proposals to cede territory to Russia and Kyiv’s preference “to discuss a complete ceasefire first and everything else later,” said an official briefed on the situation who spoke on the condition of anonymity due to the tense political moment.

Lower-level talks carried on Wednesday in London, but a foreign ministers’ meeting will no longer take place, according to a diplomat in London familiar with the planning. British Foreign Secretary David Lammy, who was set to host his peers, will instead “drop in” on the lower-level sessions."

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🗣💬🏳🚫🗣🇺🇦 — 🗞 Vedomosti:

"Russia "continues contacts" with the Americans on the Ukrainian settlement, said Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov.

In his opinion, negotiations in London on this topic did not take place, since European countries, the United States and Ukraine “failed to bring their positions closer together on some issues.”

"We have no contacts with the Europeans. No contacts with the Ukrainians either. Although President [Vladimir] Putin remains open to such contacts in the interests of a settlement," Peskov said."

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🇷🇺👍🇺🇸 — ⚪️ Izvestia:

"❗️ Vladimir Putin respects Donald Trump because he is a strong political figure and a strong personality. This was stated by Dmitry Peskov in an interview with the French magazine Le Point.

According to the press secretary of the Russian president, the leaders of the two countries agree that refusing to engage in dialogue on a Ukrainian settlement is absurd.

"In some areas their positions are close, but this does not mean that they agree on everything. Each of them defends, first and foremost, the interests of their country. What unites them is that they both understand the absurdity of refusing dialogue. What unites them is that they are ready to resolve the most difficult issues through discussions"

— Peskov noted.

He added that Moscow will achieve its goals by peaceful or military means – Russia has learned to live under sanctions, and for the European Union, restrictions create big problems."

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🗣🗯🇺🇦⬅️🇷🇺 — ⚪️ Izvestia:

"❗️ Ukraine must withdraw its troops from the Novorossiya and Donbas regions that became part of the Russian Federation to end the conflict, Dmitry Peskov said"

"You have to be really weird to get into a military conflict with someone twenty times your size and then spend your time begging each other for missiles."

Russia has no problems with the Baltic countries and no territorial claims against them. Moscow is not going to attack anyone. This was stated by Dmitry Peskov in an interview with the French magazine Le Point.

"Fortunately, neither in the Baltic countries nor in Finland are Russians being shot at from tanks or fighter jets, as has been happening in Donbass since 2014. And in the Baltic countries there is no civil war, where the regular army is exterminating Russians just because they are Russian"

— the press secretary of the Russian president noted.

Peskov stressed that there is nothing to negotiate with the European Union, “because Europe wants war, not negotiations.”

"We are not going to force it to do this! Moreover, Europe has not shown any signs of independence so far. It is as if all of Europe is working for the administration of [former US President Joe] Biden! <...> Now certain disagreements are emerging, and everything has been turned upside down: it is Washington that talks about peace, and the Europeans, who are responsible for guaranteeing future peace on their continent, talk only about war"

— he added."

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🗣👍🇷🇺❗️🇺🇦 — 📰 The New York Times | Vance Outlines U.S. Plan for Ukraine That Sharply Favors Russia | Vice President JD Vance said the cease-fire plan would freeze territory along the current front lines of the Russia-Ukraine conflict and that the U.S. would “walk away” if both parties did not agree | April 23, 2025:

"Vice President JD Vance on Wednesday called on Ukraine to accept an American peace proposal that closely mirrors longstanding Russian demands, including a “freeze” of territorial lines in the three-year war, acceptance of the annexation of Crimea by Russia and a prohibition on Ukraine becoming part of the NATO alliance.

It was the first time a U.S. official had publicly laid out a cease-fire deal in such stark terms and the comments appeared designed to increase pressure on Ukraine, which has long refused to accept Russia’s claims on its lands, particularly in Crimea.

Mr. Vance, speaking during a trip to India, said the United States would “walk away” from the peace process if both Ukraine and Russia refused to accept the American terms. But President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine was clearly the target."

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🇺🇸🗯😵‍💫 — 🇺🇸 President of United States Donald J. Trump on 🌐:

"Ukrainian President, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, is boasting on the front page of The Wall Street Journal that, “Ukraine will not legally recognize the occupation of Crimea. There’s nothing to talk about here.” This statement is very harmful to the Peace Negotiations with Russia in that Crimea was lost years ago under the auspices of President Barack Hussein Obama, and is not even a point of discussion. Nobody is asking Zelenskyy to recognize Crimea as Russian Territory but, if he wants Crimea, why didn’t they fight for it eleven years ago when it was handed over to Russia without a shot being fired? The area also houses, for many years before “the Obama handover,” major Russian submarine bases. It’s inflammatory statements like Zelenskyy’s that makes it so difficult to settle this War. He has nothing to boast about! The situation for Ukraine is dire — He can have Peace or, he can fight for another three years before losing the whole Country. I have nothing to do with Russia, but have much to do with wanting to save, on average, five thousand Russian and Ukrainian soldiers a week, who are dying for no reason whatsoever. The statement made by Zelenskyy today will do nothing but prolong the “killing field,” and nobody wants that! We are very close to a Deal, but the man with “no cards to play” should now, finally, GET IT DONE. I look forward to being able to help Ukraine, and Russia, get out of this Complete and Total MESS, that would have never started if I were President!"

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🇨🇳📉‼️ — 📰 ZeroHedge | China Is In Economic Dire Straits And They're No Longer Able To Hide It | April 21, 2025:

"Official economic data from any government is always treated with suspicion by anyone with common sense. The US, for example, witnessed some of the most egregious statistical tinkering imaginable under the Biden Administration, not to mention outright lies and propaganda from the establishment media on the health of the economy. To this day no one has been fired (or tarred and feathered) for hiding the reality of the stagflation crisis. Any government or corporate economist that called the threat "transitory" should be stripped of their financial prestige and banished to a cash register at Arby's.

And let's not forget Biden's misrepresentation of the labor market, portraying millions of new jobs for illegal migrants and visa holders as if they were jobs benefiting American citizens. In the US and across the western world, lying about the economy is generally seen by politicians as a temporary solution to secure reelection. However, in China, lying about the economy is treated as a national security imperative. If there's anything in the world that gives communists a feeling of existential dread, it's the fear that their ideological enemies will discover proof that communism doesn't work.

The Trump Administration's tariffs on China are not the initiator of the nation's troubles, they are more a bookend to a process of decline that has been ongoing for years."

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