Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy urged the formation of a European army to bolster continental defenses, citing intelligence that Russia intends to deploy troops to Belarus this summer under the guise of training exercises. Zelenskyy emphasized that this move poses a direct threat to neighboring NATO countries.
Zelenskyy said Ukraine had intelligence that Russia plans to send troops to its ally Belarus this summer under the pretense of training exercises, but warned that it posed a direct threat to bordering NATO countries.
"We must build the armed forces of Europe, so that Europe's future depends only on Europeans," Zelenskyy told the Munich Security Conference in Germany.The Ukrainian president met with U.S. Vice President JD Vance on Friday to discuss rising hopes for a Russia-Ukraine peace deal, but noted that his country wanted"security guarantees" before any talks with Russia commence.that it would be "very, very, very difficult" for Ukraine to survive without U.S.
U.S. President Donald Trump has repeatedly said that U.S. troops would not be stationed in Ukraine to act as a deterrent to further Russian aggression. He has suggested, instead, that Washington and Kyiv would strike an economic pact, focusing on the latter's vast supply of critical minerals, to provide the embattled country with a post-war security shield.
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