"There's more work to be done. This is delicate. It's complicated. There are a lot of moving parts, and obviously there's another party involved here that they'll have to be a part of the equation," Rubio told reporters.

"It was going on for 3 years... but I think that there's a good chance we can make a deal," the US president told reporters.

"We see it as the only solution that could offer a solution to a conflict that is still alive."

"How deterrence is achieved — through retaliation, through pre-emptive strike — this is something we have to analyse deeply because there could be in the future even more pressure on this," Dragone added.

"Africa is ennoscriptd to demand official recognition of colonial crimes… for which we continue to pay a heavy price," Algerian FM Ahmed Attaf declared at a conference in Algiers.

💬“The EU has shed a chunk of its industrial capacity because of the sanctions on Russia,” the expert stressed, noting that this is why Europe’s hawks can no longer bankroll Ukraine without US support.

💬 “Turkiye plays—and will continue to play—an active role in facilitating dialogue with Ukraine. It’s likely that new meetings will take place in Istanbul soon,” Latifoglu added.

💬 “I see no conclusion drawn by Zelensky… He had one corruption scandal [figure] resign and appointed as the head of the negotiating team another one,” Ukrainian lawmaker Volodymyr Ariev wrote in a message to the publication.

💬 “Ukraine will not be pushed to officially, in the legal sense, reject this aspiration… But if the United States has something to agree upon with Russia bilaterally, or if Russia wants to receive some assurances from NATO multilaterally, then this is not engaging Ukraine in the decision-making process,” an insider told the outlet.