The Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on Friday that his country wants “security guarantees” before talks with Russia because the Trump government is pushing both countries to find a short final for the three-year war.
Shortly before Zelenskyy, before he sat down with the Vice President JD Vance with us with excited discussions at the Munich Security Conference, Zelenskyy said that he would only agree to meet with the Russian leader Vladimir Putin after a common plan US President Donald Trump was negotiated.
The approximately 40-minute meeting between Vance and Zelenskyy did not produce any important announcements in which the path from the deadliest war in Europe has been listed since World War II. Zelenskyy gave a plaintive explanation about the state of the game.
“We want very peace,” said Zelenskyy. “But we need real security guarantees.”
For his part, Vance said that the Trump government was obliged to find a permanent peace between Ukraine and Russia.
“Basically, the goal is how President Trump sketched it, we want the war to end,” said Vance. “We want the murders to stop. Not the kind of peace in which Eastern Europe will only be in conflicts a few years later.”
Trump has improved years of US support for Ukraine for years after a phone call with Putin this week when he said that the two guides would probably meet soon to negotiate a peace agreement. Trump later assured Zelenskyy that he too would have a place at the table.
“New sheriff in the city”
Before meeting Zelenskyy, Vance maintained European officials on freedom of speech and illegal migration on the continent, and warned that they are risking to lose public support if they do not change the course quickly.
“The threat that I am most concerned about Europe is not Russia. It is not China. It is no other external actor,” said Vance in a speech to the Munich Security Conference. “What I’m worried is the threat from the inside – the withdrawal of Europe from some of its most fundamental values, values that are shared with the United States of America.”
US President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin agree to visit the other countries and start talks to end the war in Ukraine in what Trump described as a “highly productive” call. It is still unclear whether Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy will even play a role in peace talks.
He warned the European civil servants: “If they are in fear of their own voters, America cannot do anything for them.”
The speeches and Trumps penetrated after a quick way out of Ukraine became intense and insecure at the annual assembly of world leaders and national security officers.
The Vice President also warned the European officials of illegal migration and said that the Europeans had not chosen to open “locks for millions of countless immigrants”.
He also referred to an attack on Thursday in Munich, in which more than 30 people were injured in whom the suspect is a 24-year-old Afghan who arrived in Germany as an asylum seeker in 2016.
NATO defense spending
On Friday, Vance scored separately with the German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier, the Secretary General of NATO, Mark Rutte and British Foreign Minister David Lammy. He used the obligations to repeat the request of the republican administration according to NATO members to spend more for the defense.
At the moment, 23 of the 32 Member States of NATO are the goal of the western military alliance to issue two percent of their GDP for defense.
But the European leaders are pushing back that the characteristics of the white house of a dependent Europe do not have an impact in the data. The continent has gathered since Putin has been presenting the invasion in February 2022. The United States has poured more than 66 billion US dollars of weapons and military support to Ukraine, while European and other allied weapons of $ 60 billion sent Kyiv.
“We introduced hard sanctions and significantly weakened the Russia’s economy,” said the President of the EU Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, in the comments on the conference. “We broke one taboo after the other and smash our trust in Russian gas, which makes us more permanently resistant. And we are about to do more.”
Chernobyl drones -strike
Hours before Vance and Zelenskyy should meet, a Russian drone with a highly explosive explosive head hit the protective cover of the nuclear power plant in Chernobyl in the Kyiv region, said the Ukrainian president. According to Zelenskyy and the UN Atomic Agency, the radiation levels have not increased.
Zelenskyy said reporters that he believes that the strike in Chernobyl drones was a “very clear greeting by Putin and Russian Federation on the security conference”.
Monitoring video by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on social media shows a strike on the outer protective cover of the nuclear power plant.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov found the demands of Ukraine on Friday. The spokeswoman for the Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova, said that the Munich organizers have not invited Russia for several years.
Trump was vague about his specific intentions for Ukraine and Russia – apart from the fact that a deal will probably lead to the area that has confiscated the area that Russia has confiscated since its rapprochement of the Crimea in 2014.
Ukraine’s offer to join NATO
Trump’s considerations have left the Europeans in a dilemen and wondered how-or if they can maintain security after the Second World War, that NATO is guaranteed, or the gap in the billions of dollars of security support that the democratic bidden Administration has been made available to Ukraine since Russia.
Trump has this help very skeptical and is expected to shorten it or restrict it in other ways when negotiations are in operation.
Pete Hegseth says that NATO membership, the borders before 2014, is not realistic for Ukraine in any ceasefire negotiations and that Europe shoulder more costs for the defense of Ukraine.
Both Trump and the US defense minister Pete Hegseth this week have the hopes of Ukraine to become part of NATO, who said the alliance less than a year ago.
“I see no way that a country in Russia could allow it to join NATO,” said Trump on Thursday. “I don’t see that.”
Zelenskyy said, during the conference in his own remarks, said the United States, including the bidges administration, never the Ukraine as a NATO member.
Possible sanctions against Russia
Vance said in an interview with Wall Street Journal that the USA would take Moscow with sanctions and potentially military measures if Putin would not agree with a peace agreement with Ukraine that Kyiv’s long -term independence guarantees.
The warning that military options “stay on the table” was an impressive language of a Trump government, which repeatedly underlined the desire to quickly end the war.
The Vances team later pushed back the newspaper’s report and said he “did no threats”.
“He only explained the fact that nobody will take options away from President Trump at the beginning of these negotiations,” said Martin, Communication Director of Vance.
The Track Trump also takes Europe.
French deputy foreign minister Benjamin Haddad described Europe as at a turning point, with the soil quickly shifted under its feet, and said that Europe has to settle to the United States because of its security. He warned that it could also win Russia in Ukraine in Asia.
“I think we do not reach sufficiently to the extent to which our world changes. Both our competitors and our allies accelerate,” Haddad told the broadcaster France Info on Thursday.
