U.S. Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth says a return to Ukraine's pre-2014 borders is unrealistic and the Trump administration does not see NATO membership for Kyiv as part of a solution to the war triggered by Russia's invasion.
Hegseth at NATO summit: "We can talk all we want about values. Values are important. But you can't shoot values."
-- Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) February 13, 2025 at 10:59 AM
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Trump says he has spoken to Putin and agreed to negotiate Ukraine ceasefire
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... Donald Trump has said that he and Vladimir Putin have spoken directly and agreed to begin negotiations to broker a ceasefire to the war in Ukraine.
In a social media post, Trump said that held a "lengthy and highly productive phone call" with Putin and that they agreed to "have our respective teams start negotiations immediately".
He also said that he and Putin had agreed to visit each other's nations.
"As we both agreed, we want to stop the millions of deaths taking place in the War with Russia/Ukraine," Trump wrote on TruthSocial. "President Putin even used my very strong Campaign motto of, COMMON SENSE.' We both believe very strongly in it. We agreed to work together, very closely, including visiting each other's Nations."
The US negotiating team would include the secretary of state, Marco Rubio; the director of the CIA, John Ratcliffe; the national security adviser, Michael Waltz, and the ambassador and special envoy Steve Witkoff. ...
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US no longer primarily focused' on Europe's security, says Pete Hegseth
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