“…If you do not personally come to the conclusion that it is time to end this war, Ukraine will continue fighting for its existence. We will have those who support us.
But you, too, will have to fight much harder for your own existence – not Russia’s, but your own. And this is not a threat from me or from Ukraine. It is a fact of Russian history that you know well: when Russia grows tired, change comes…”
“There’s definitely been a shift in mood among the elites this year … there is profound disappointment in Putin,” said a well-connected business leader, adding that there was “a growing sense that some kind of catastrophe is looming”. “
No one believes everything will suddenly collapse tomorrow,” the source said.
“But there is a growing realisation that utterly senseless, self-destructive decisions keep being made. People who once defended Putin no longer do. Any sense of a future has disappeared.”
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Reports over the weekend said Trump had privately urged Zelenskyy to accept Russia's terms for ending the war in Ukraine during a fractious White House meeting on Friday, warning that Putin had said he would "destroy" Ukraine if it did not agree.
According to the Financial Times, the meeting descended at times into a "shouting match", with Trump "cursing all the time".
