Former Undersecretary of Defense Robert Wilkie told Newsmax on Thursday that a peace deal to end the Russia-Ukraine war within the next 48 hours doesn’t seem likely as Russian President Vladimir “Putin has blown through every offer that the United States and the Europeans have made.”
At least nine people were killed and more than 70 injured early Thursday when Russia launched an hourslong drone and missile strike on Kyiv in the deadliest attack on the Ukrainian capital since July. The strike came hours after President Donald Trump suggested that a peace deal with Russia was forthcoming.
Wilkie told “Wake Up America” that he thinks “there may be some recalculation in the White House” after Putin’s latest assault on Ukraine.
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