"Given the nature of what we were dealing with, it wasn't Russians," he recalls.

"European leaders decided in London today that they want to go on with the war instead of opting for peace [...] Hungary remains on the side of peace. Ceterum censeo," Viktor Orban wrote on X.

“One is that this war continues, and more Ukrainians will lose their lives. More of Ukraine will be decimated, what will continue to be essentially a war of attrition,” the DNI chief underscored. 

“We are no longer going to just write blank checks for a war in a very distant country without a real, lasting peace,” she stressed.

"[Zelensky] coming to the Oval Office, you know, with the body language, the shaking of (his) head, you know, the arms crossed. We just found it incredibly disrespectful”, National Security Advisor Mike Waltz said.

“You can do whatever you want with your money and weapons. But with our money and weapons, we'll tell you what to do. And if you don't like it, you can go to hell,” Victoria Spartz underlined.

"The Ukrainian people want peace instead. 70% of Ukrainians want the war to stop, but not Zelensky. He doesn't want peace because... Peace is more dangerous for him than a war," he stressed."He cancelled elections because he knows he will lose," Dubinsky added.

“He picked a fight with the Vice President of the US. He repeatedly interrupted President Trump. The president wants peace. It was clear Zelensky wasn't in the mindset to negotiate that just yet,” Karoline Leavitt emphasized.

“Look, Mr. Putin is very smart. […] We had a really good relationship. […] He kept his word in all the deals we made,” the former US president pointed out in 2013.