Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said US President Trump had given him his mobile phone number.
Zelenskyy thinks Trump is the key to ending the Russian-Ukraine conflict. Zelenskyy spoke on Friday at the Munich security conference.
Trump this week has changed years of constant American support Ukraine. Zelenskyy should later meet the American vice-president JD Vance.
Many observers, especially in Europe, Hope Vance will bring at least a little light AssetIdeas for a regulation negotiated in war after a phone call between Trump and Russian chief Vladimir Putin this week.
Vance hammered the United States at home demanding that the NATO alliance is intensifying defense spending on Friday, before a security meeting in Europe at a time of intense incidence and uncertainty on foreign policy of the ‘Trump administration.
Vance started his day in Munich in Munich separately with NATO secretary general, Mark Rutte, German president Frank-Walter Steinmeier and British Foreign Affairs David Lammy.
He used commitments to repeat the call of the Trump republican administration to NATO members to spend more in defense. Currently, 23 of the 32 NATO member countries are reaching the objective of the Western military alliance to spend 2% of the country’s GDP in defense.
“NATO is a very important military alliance, of course, that we are the most important part,” Vance in Rutte told.
“But we want to make sure that NATO is really designed for the future, and we think that a large part of this is to guarantee that NATO is doing a little more loading in Europe, so that the United States May focus on some of our challenges in East Asia. »»
Rutte said he had agreed that Europe should intensify.
“We have to grow up in this direction and spend much more,” he said.
Trump, who upset years of American support firm to Ukraine during his call with Putin on Wednesday, was vague about his specific intentions – apart 2014.
“Ukraine war is due to end,” Trump told journalists on Thursday. “Young people have been killed at levels that no one has seen since the Second World War. And it is a ridiculous war.
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Trump’s Musings have Left Europeans in A Whenary, Wondering How-Or Even if-They can keep the post-wwii Security that nato afforded them or fill the gap in the Billions of Dollars of Security assistance that the democratic biden administration provide to ukrainein ‘ February 2022 Invasion.
Trump has been very skeptical about this aid and should reduce it or limit it as negotiations are starting in the coming days.
Trump and the US Secretary for Defense Pete Hegseth both undermined Ukraine’s hope to be part of NATO, which according to Crimea, including Crimea.
“I see no way that a country in Russian position can allow them … that they join NATO,” said Trump on Thursday. “I don’t see that happening.”
But British Prime Minister Keir Starmer told Zelenskyy on Friday that Ukraine had to be authorized to join NATO.
Trump in recent days, said that he wanted to reach an agreement with Ukraine to access the country’s rare earth materials as a condition for continuing Ukraine’s American defense support against Russia. He confirmed earlier this week that Aid was working to conclude such an agreement.
Asked on Friday if an agreement could be concluded in Munich, Vance replied: “We will see.”
Vance, in an interview with the Wall Street Journal, said that the United States would hit Moscow from sanctions and potentially military action if Putin did not accept a peace agreement with Ukraine which guarantees long-term independence of kyiv.
The warning that the military options “remain on the table” were a striking language of a Trump administration which repeatedly stressed the desire to end the war quickly.
Zelenskyy will not accept the agreements concluded without Ukraine.
American insurance may have somewhat appeased the fears of Zelenskyy, although they will not replace any lost military or economic support that the administration of President Joe Biden had provided.
The Ukrainian chief conceded Thursday that he was “not very pleasant” that Trump spoke first in Putin. But he said that the main problem was “not to allow everything to go according to Putin’s plan”.
“We cannot accept it, as an independent country, no agreement (concluded) without us,” said Zelenskyy, visiting a nuclear power plant in western Ukraine.
The song that Trump takes also shaken Europe, as was his disdainful comments on France and Germany did it during his first mandate.
The French Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs, Benjamin Haddad, described Europe as a turning point, the ground quickly moving under its feet, and said that Europe had to wean from its dependence on states -Unis for its safety.
He warned that putting a victory to Russia in Ukraine could also have repercussions in Asia.
“I think we don’t grasp enough to what extent our world is changing. Our competitors and allies are busy accelerating, “said Haddad on Thursday, France Info.
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