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A stripped-down text of this type that does not condemn Russian aggression or explicitly reference Ukraine's territorial integrity looks like a betrayal of Kyiv and a jab at the EU, but also a show of disdain for core principles of international law,
said Richard Gowan of the International Crisis Group
To discuss that with a non-NATO member … I don’t believe it is advantageous to any negotiation,
Sendak said, noting
They’ve committed atrocities on the Ukrainian population in the areas they occupy. I would expect that would get worse the further west the Russians move and the more they move into the hardest traditional anti-Russian, pro-Western areas of western Ukraine. The horrors will be unspeakable,
he predictedThe fact that treaties suddenly no longer apply for a US president and that he practically takes the opposite side in the case of Russia's war of aggression against Ukraine is of course shocking,
Hoff told DW
It is simply wrong and dangerous to question President Zelenskyy's democratic legitimacy,
Chancellor Olaf Scholz told the media outlet Der Spiegel on Wednesday ... he saidIt is now important that the Europeans agree on a common strategy very, very quickly,
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This is basically a classic perpetrator-victim reversal, this is the Russian narrative,
said Friedrich Merz, leader of the conservative Christian Democratic Union (CDU), who, going by opinion polls, is currently most likely to be the next German chancellorBerlin politicians are shocked and paralyzed,
said political scientist Henning Hoff of the German Council on Foreign RelationsWe have to ensure our own security,
he told public broadcaster ZDF, stressingAnd to be honest, I am somewhat shocked that Donald Trump has now obviously adopted this narrative,
Merz continued
That he is suddenly saying that Ukraine attacked Russia is almost unacceptable,
Germany's Vice Chancellor Robert Habeck accused Trump of distorting the facts ... Habeck told public broadcaster ARDThe next German government should work closely with its European allies to improve its ability to act as quickly as possible and try to close the capability gaps that a US withdrawal from Europe will leave behind,
he said
I’ve been in and around defense for a long time, and I’ve never seen anything like this,
Trevor Taylor, a director at the Royal United Services Institute, or RUSI, a London-based think tank, said of the cracks in the transatlantic alliance
We need a surge in European defense spending,
she told attendees at the Munich Security Conference
The United States will no longer tolerate an imbalanced relationship which encourages dependency,
Hegseth told a coalition of more than 50 countries coordinating the delivery of military equipment to Ukraine, during a visit to BrusselsThere is a recognition that Europeans should… do as much as possible for themselves,
he addedAll big countries in Europe tend to develop… their own aircraft, their own tank, their own ship,
he said,I don’t think that this ‘peace process’ is for Ukrainians’ sake. It is laughable that they pretend it is,
said Iryna, 26, a lawyer from Kyiv
Ukraine will have to keep fighting – deal or no deal,
said Katarina, 37, an interior designer and architect who left Kyiv when the war began and now lives in a small village in a suburb of the Ukrainian capitalThere is only one problem: insufficient and untimely military assistance from allies, including the United States,
said Serhii, a 50-year-old accountant