Vice President J. D. Vens killed home that the United States demands that the NATO alliance come up with expenses on Friday, ahead of the security meeting in Europe during intensive concern and uncertainty over the foreign policy of the Trump administration.
A The future of Ukraine This is the main point of the agenda at the Munich Security Conference after a telephone call between US President Trump and Russian leader Vladimir Putin this week when they pledged to work together to end the 3-year conflict of Russia-Ukraine.
Vens is expected to meet with the President of Ukrainian Volodzimir Zelensky on Friday for talks, which numerous observers, especially in Europe, hope to shed at least a few light on the idea of Trump's settlement of the war.
Vnes started his day at the Munich meeting separately with NATO Secretary General Mark Rute, German President Frank Walter Steinmeier and British Foreign Minister David Lami. He used interactions to repeat the call of the administration of the republican Trump to spend more NATO members. Currently, 23 of 32 NATO countries are on the target of the Western Military Alliance to spend 2% of the country's GDP.
“Of course, NATO is a very important military union in which we are the most significant part,” said Vnes Rute. “But we want to make sure that NATO is actually built for the future, and we believe that most of this is NATO to apply a little more load in Europe so that the US can focus on some of our problems in East Asia.”
Rute said he agreed that Europe should intensify. “We have to grow in this sense and spend much more,” he said.
A few hours before Vens and Zelensky were appointed, a Russian drone with a high experimental combat unit got into the Chernobyl nuclear power plant content in the region of Kiev, said the Ukrainian president. The radiation level has not increased, Zelenskyy said and the UN Atomic Agency.
Zelensky in Munich told reporters that he believed that the Chernobyl drone strike is “a very clear greeting from Putin and the Russian Federation to the Security Conference.”
Kremlin's press secretary Dmitry Pesko denied Ukraine's demands on Friday. The press secretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Maria Zakharova stated that the Munich organizers had not invited Russia for several years, this decision she called “amazing and politicized.”
US Secretary of State Mark Rubio was to join Vnes and Zelensky, but was detained when his Air Force was supposed to return to Washington after developing a mechanical problem on the way to Munich. He took another plane, but it was unclear whether he would come to the meeting on time.
Trump, who overcame the years of unwavering support for Ukraine during his call with Putin on Wednesday, was vague about his specific intentions – in addition to suggest that the transaction would probably lead to the fact that Ukraine would be forced to concede the territory that Russia confiscated from At that time Crimea in 2014.
“Ukraine's war should end,” Trump told reporters Thursday. “Young people kill at the level that no one has seen from World War II. And this is a ridiculous war.”
Trump's musicians left Europeans in a difficult position, wondering how – or even if – they can support security after World War II, which NATO gave them or filled a billions of billions of security assistance, which the Democrat administration provided Ukraine after Russian February 2022 invasion.
Trump was very skeptical of this assistance and is expected to reduce it or otherwise restricts it because they are negotiating in the coming days.
US Secretary of Defense and US Secretary of Defense Pit Hugset Ukraine's hopes will not get part of NATOThe alliance said less than a year ago, was “irreversible” or the return of its territory captured by Russia, which currently occupies almost 20%, including Crimea.
“I do not see any way to make the country on Russia's position … to join NATO,” Trump said on Thursday. “I don't see it.”
But British Prime Minister Keira Starmer said on Friday Zelenskyy that Ukraine should be allowed to join NATO.
Trump in recent days has stated that he wants to reach an agreement with Ukraine to gain access to rare land materials as conditions for further support for Ukraine's defense from Russia. Earlier this week, he confirmed that the assistants were working to conclude such a deal.
He asked on Friday if the transaction could be completed in Munich, Vens replied, “We'll see.”
In an interview with Wall Street Journal, Vnes said the United States hit Moscow with sanctions and potentially hostilities if Putin does not agree to a peace treaty with Ukraine, which guarantees Kiev's long -term independence.
The warning that the military options “remain on the table” was a strange language from the Trump administration, which repeatedly emphasized the desire to stop the war quickly.
The US assurances may have some weak fears of Zelensky, although they will not replace the lost military and economic support provided by the Presidential Administration Joe Biden.
The Ukrainian leader acknowledged on Thursday that “not very nice” Trump first made Putin. But he said that the main issue was “not to allow everything to go according to Putin's plan.”
“We cannot accept this as an independent country, any agreements (concluded) without us,” Zelensky said, visiting a nuclear power plant at Western Ukraine.
Trump Trump also shocked Europe, as well as his disdainful comments about France and Germany during his first term.
French Foreign Minister Benjamin Haddad called Europe in a turning point, and the earth quickly moves under his feet, and said that Europe should wean its dependence on the US for its safety. He warned that Russia's transition to Ukraine could also have consequences in Asia.
“I think we do not understand what extent our world changes. Both our competitors and our allies are busy with acceleration,” Haddad said on Thursday.