US-Ukraine diplomacy time wasted, as Russia gained huge advantage
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🗓️ 26 January 2026
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US-Ukraine diplomacy time wasted, as Russia gained huge advantage
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| 0:00.0 | All right, Alexander, let's do a video on the UAE talks that have concluded talks that took |
| 0:08.1 | place on Friday and Saturday. |
| 0:10.9 | And we had the US and Whitkoff give some statements as to the outcome of the discussions. |
| 0:22.4 | Anonymous sources speaking to various mainstream media outlets in the U.S. |
| 0:28.0 | And Whitkoff struck up a positive tone about the talks. |
| 0:32.8 | Russia stayed silent. |
| 0:34.8 | There was not much coming from Russia. |
| 0:36.5 | But today we did have a statement from |
| 0:38.6 | Peskhov. And Peskhov's message was pretty clear. Don't expect much. And it wasn't as friendly |
| 0:49.1 | as some of the stories painted out to be because the U.S. mainstream media was painting a picture |
| 0:56.5 | of everyone is buddy-buddy and everyone's getting along and they're having lunch and they're |
| 1:01.1 | talking and it's this great positive atmosphere. Peskov he toned it down quite a bit with |
| 1:09.7 | his statements. Anyway, what are your thoughts on where we are with these talks? |
| 1:14.6 | Absolutely. |
| 1:15.2 | And here again, we have another example of how the Russians, and I have to say this, |
| 1:19.4 | are very, very poor. |
| 1:22.4 | In fact, they just don't get this business about information management |
| 1:25.6 | because they obviously say to everybody, |
| 1:29.0 | you know, we've had these talks, let's keep it all quiet, quiet, let's keep it silent. |
| 1:33.6 | They say absolutely nothing after the talks. |
| 1:37.6 | Witgolf and Kushner, the two anonymous US officials, but I'm no doubt that they |
| 1:42.1 | were the two anonymous US.S. officials. |
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