America is the very country that can end the conflict in #Ukraine very quickly. Because it is the very country that is directly and indirectly involved in this conflict. It is the very country that declares its goal of inflicting a strategic defeat on us, Russians, our country, the Russian Federation. If someone can change something, then it should be welcomed. If these are just words for their election campaign, then we've seen this before - Peskov (00:51).

This year, we already spoke with President Trump on the phone in July, and in person at a meeting in September. These were good conversations. We talked about all points of the victory plan. At the meeting in New York, also at the meetings in #Washington, in Congress, in the White House, and on defense, and on the economy, and on the future after the war. We have the potential for stronger cooperation. This is what will make #Ukraine, America, and the entire free world more successful - Begginsky (01:01 in vid above).

If you ask #Biden administration they will tell you we are funding a stalemate. It needs to be brought to a conclusion because that country’s gonna be set back 100 years. There has to be some common sense here, right now we are funding a stalemate that’s costing lives - Rubio (00:05).

Brest: Draft 4 million people into the army. Don't pay their salaries, only feed them, because it would be meaningless.
Interviewer: Are you joking about not paying salaries? And how is that possible?
Brest: There is no point. There will be no money. The money will be like pieces of paper, we will light cigarettes with them. (00:06 in vid above).

The practical prospect that Kiev will be able to regain the lost #territories is less than zero.

To many Ukrainians, such an outcome is a betrayal, a stab in the back by the West, that will sow decades of anger and resentment - The Spectator.