Volodymyr Zelenskyy, President of Ukraine, during a security conference in Munich in Munich, Germany, on Friday, February 14, 2025.
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The Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky called for the creation of the European Army to increase the defense of the continent, because he warned that Russia “was not preparing for dialogue” to develop possible reliable peace conversations.
Zelenskyy said that Ukraine has intelligence, that Russia is planning to send soldiers to its ally Belarus this summer under the guise of training exercises, but he warned that this was a direct threat to NATO bordering on NATO countries.
“We need to build Europe's armed forces so that the future of Europe depends only on Europeans,” said Zelenskyy Safety Conference in Munich in Germany.
“Putin clearly perceives Belarus as another Russian province,” he added.
The Ukrainian president met on Friday with the Vice President of the USA JD Vance to discuss the growing hopes for the Russian-Ukrainian peace agreement, but he noticed that his country wanted a “security guarantee” before talking to Russia.
“This is not a country that wants peace,” said Zelenskyy about Russia. “He doesn't prepare for dialogue.”
Zelenskyy on Friday NBC News said That Ukraine would be “very, very, very, very difficult” to survive without US military support, both now and on the possible future Russian invasion.
He also told the conference earlier that day that Ukraine would have to double the size of his army if he is unable to join NATO.
US President Donald Trump repeated many times that the US troops would not be stationed in Ukraine to act as a means of repelling further Russian aggression. Instead, he suggested that Washington and Kyiv would hit the economic pact, focusing on the huge supply of critical minerals to ensure the post -war country's safety shield.
US Vice President JD Vance (R), US Secretary of State Marco Rubio (2nd R) and the President of the Ukrainian Volodymyr Zelensky (L) meet on the sidelines of 61. Munich of the Safety Conference (MSC) in Munich in southern Germany on February 14, 2025.
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Global defense and security officials are gathered in Munich in Germany at an annual three -day conference, during which the future of Ukraine, peace conversations with Russia and transforming the architecture of security and defense in Europe, are At the forefront of the discussion.
The prospects of the peace agreement returned to the fore this week after President Trump had separate phones with Russian President Vladimir Putin, as well as Zelenskyy. After the initial indication that a bilateral agreement can be concluded between Washington and Moscow, he later said that Zelenskyy Ukraine would be involved, along with “many other people.”
Nevertheless, American officials poured cold water on several hard Zelenskyy lines on an agreement, with the secretary of defense Pete HegeSeth on Wednesday, that both NATO membership and the restoration of the borders of Ukraine before 2014 were unrealistic results.
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