By Deborah Haynes, security and defense editor
Russia is preparing for a broader war in Europe and would be a “mortal trap” for Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin to locate a solution to the clash in Ukraine, said a NATO defense minister.
Dovile Sakaline, Lithuania Defense Minister said that European allies have the option: either to arouse the need to rebuild their Armed Forces and their defense industry “fast and very significantly”, to meet “in a very complicated scenario to say it diplomatically “.
She spoke then that NATO ministers celebrated their first assembly since Donald Trump returned to power.
The minister predicted that the discussions in the assembly today in Brussels would be complicated with the alliance faced with a selection between two other directions: to follow an open path through Russia and the White House or enhance Europe to shape their own future.
“That we fall under the ghost that Trump and Putin will locate a solution for all of us, and it would be a fatal trap, or we are like a European who embraces our own economic, monetary and army capacity and we will be the ones who will have what will have what will take In Europe and Ukraine with the United States, “he said.
Sakaline under pressure the important importance of the United States in NATO, but said it was that European and Canada allies interfere and paid for their own safety instead of obtaining benefits from the coverage provided through the much more harder armed forces of the Washington.
She warned that the short time.
“China and Russia will coordinate their movements and if we cannot paint as a team for the democratic world, they will be the darkest moments since World War II,” said the Minister of Defense, speaking in English to journalists.
“In a few years, we will be in a place where Russia, with the speed that its defense industry and its army develop, will pass,” he said.
“We all perceive that Ukraine is the first step lately of an imperial expansion of Russia. “
Pete Hegesh, the United States Secretary of Defense, used the workplace of allies in Brussels in Brussels, to develop tension in Member States to spend more for their infantry soldiers and avoid counting both in US security.
He also declared Washington’s vision for the end of the Russian war in Ukraine, saying that kyiv would be “unrealistic” so he can recover all his lands.
By Deborah Haynes, security and defense editor
Russia is preparing for a broader war in Europe and would be a “mortal trap” for Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin to locate a solution to the clash in Ukraine, said a NATO defense minister.
Dovile Sakaline, Lithuania Defense Minister said that European allies have the option: either to arouse the need to rebuild their Armed Forces and their defense industry “fast and very significantly”, to meet “in a very complicated scenario to say it diplomatically “.
She spoke then that NATO ministers celebrated their first assembly since Donald Trump returned to power.
The minister predicted that the discussions in the assembly today in Brussels would be complicated with the alliance faced with a selection between two other directions: to follow an open path through Russia and the White House or enhance Europe to shape their own future.
“That we fall under the ghost that Trump and Putin will locate a solution for all of us, and it would be a fatal trap, or we are like a European who embraces our own economic, monetary and army capacity and we will be the ones who will have what will have what will take In Europe and Ukraine with the United States, “he said.
Sakaline under pressure the important importance of the United States in NATO, but said it was that European and Canada allies interfere and paid for their own safety instead of obtaining benefits from the coverage provided through the much more harder armed forces of the Washington.
She warned that the short time.
“China and Russia will coordinate their movements and if we cannot paint as a team for the democratic world, they will be the darkest moments since World War II,” said the Minister of Defense, speaking in English to journalists.
“In a few years, we will be in a place where Russia, with the speed that its defense industry and its army develop, will pass,” he said.
“We all perceive that Ukraine is the first step lately of an imperial expansion of Russia. “
Pete Hegesh, the United States Secretary of Defense, used the workplace of allies in Brussels in Brussels, to develop tension in Member States to spend more for their infantry soldiers and avoid counting both in US security.
He also declared Washington’s vision for the end of the Russian war in Ukraine, saying that kyiv would be “unrealistic” so he can recover all his lands.
No more reaction to take it to Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin agree to begin negotiations to finish the war in Ukraine.
Kaja Kallas, head of the foreign policy of the European Union, said that Europe would continue to Ukraine if it resists in terms of a peace agreement that had not accepted.
Kallas said that for any agreement to work, Europe and Ukraine must worry about peace conversations, and added that it was not “good tactics” to yield to Russia’s requests before negotiations are negotiations.
His comments The statements of the NATO Defense Ministers this morning ask that Europe and Ukraine be components of any negotiation (see our 11:13 am).
They take Donald Trump in the word, “said our army analyst, Sean Bell.
The US president and Vladimir Putin agreed to begin negotiations to put an end to war in Ukraine, but Bell that there is an absent key in negotiations.
“We will have to not forget that this is not a fight between Russia and America, it is between Russia and Ukraine,” Jayne Secker told our presenter.
“In the end, Volodymyr Zelenskyy will have to be a key detail of this conversation. “
Bell explained that Trump will distance himself from his predecessor Joe Biden by providing a new approach.
“Trump is an experienced negotiator, so he would not need to give key negotiation schools,” he added.
Putin is in the foot, Bell said, adding that the danger leads Trump “to the word. “
“We have heard in days, he has made advertisements on the Panama Canal, Greenland and Gaza,” he said.
“What we have to paint is your agenda, because I don’t think we can take your words in its nominal value. “
Donald Trump with Vladimir Putin left the Ukrainians asking what they did, said Ukrainian deputy Kira Rudik to Jayne Secker from Sky.
She says that he “hurts to know” that Putin’s isolation ended and that the United States “obviously cannot imply that what security promises for Ukraine will be if a peace agreement is concluded” after the two leaders spoke.
“But obviously they can imply that the country is NATO members,” he said.
Rudik says that many Ukrainians ask a consultation to which he has no answer.
She says: “He is” What have we injured? “
“We are fighting for our nation, our future, our democracy and we are a sovereign state: to survive. So what is our fault here?
“Is our neighbor Russia and at some point, the unity of the West is not enough to repel Russia of our territory?”
“What will happen to all those who have suffered war crimes committed by Russia?”
She also says that neither the US Secretary of Defense, Pete Hegseth or Trump, said who or what will guarantee that Russia no longer attacks Ukraine in this peace agreement.
Ukraine will not settle for any peace agreement between the United States and Russia in its absence, said Volodymyr Zelenskyy this afternoon.
Going to the military of his call with Donald Trump last night, who arrived here after Putin, said the country will be at the negotiating table.
He said he had not discussed the NATO club in the call with Trump, however, the United States did not need Ukraine to register in the Defense Alliance.
“Today, not everything is happening according to Putin’s plan, in which he needs to do everything to do his bilateral negotiations [with the United States],” said the Ukrainian boss.
Trump expects a peace agreement to conclude, however, it turns out to have granted Putin dealers before the conversations begin.
The US president said last night that it was not practical for Ukraine to enroll in NATO and that he was probably not to all his occupied lands.
He just turned at 8 am in Washington DC and Donald Trump the day in its very old way: publish on social truth.
He said he had “great discussions” with Vladimir Putin and Volodymyr Zelenskyy last night and positive about the possibilities of ending the war in Ukrinainearray.
By Dominic Waghorn, Editor of Affairs
You deserve to give peace a chance.
That Donald Trump “thinks outside the box” is already the cliché of the moment. And it can bring a new thought and a new power to end the Russian war in Ukraine, where others have failed.
But there are disturbing symptoms that already the fears that Ukraine has been betrayed before the conversations began.
Trump can recover yesterday, even to say that Ukraine and Russia were equivalent partners in all long -term negotiations.
When asked if they were, he said: “HMM, that is an attractive question. ” The Ukrainians said, “they will have to make peace. Their other people are killed and I think they make peace. “
More worrying, it also results in a position to accept as true with Vladimir Putin. It is satisfied to take the ground of a guy who has sent agents to Great Britain to kill with chemical weapons, which have lied several times in their plans to invade Ukraine, and that murdered each rival to the composure that dared to challenge him.
“He insisted that if [the conflict] ends, he needs to end,” Trump said, as if that were all. “You need to finish it and then go to war in six months. “
In the same way, Neville Chamberlain returned from Munich in 1938 by stirring a role that points out “peace in our time” after winning what he is Hitler’s insurance.
For the Ukrainians, the parallels with 1938 avoid there. They are told even before starting negotiations that will have to abandon some of their lands that have been taken through a brutal force.
The Ukrainians compare it with Czechoslovakia, which forced Sudetenland to Hitler. Chamberlain idea would be enough to appease Hitler. We all know what he has followed.
They have each and every explanation why worry.
There is nothing in what Putin said to make anyone who gives him a fifth of Ukraine either. In fact, in speeches, it has been categorically and explicitly transparent on many occasions. He needs all Ukraine because he thinks it is a component of Russia. And then needs the security architecture of reinforced Europe.
And Trump is also to give in to Putin, produce one of the main requests of before the war he made in 2021 before invading his neighbor, the relief of the American footprint in NATO in Europe that was declared through Hegesh in Brussels in Brussels .
Trump leaves a giant component of the lever effect he had on the Russians even before the conversations began. This of a guy who declared in his electronic book the art of the agreement that the lever effect is all on negotiations. “Materialize the dice without him. “
It is curious and inexplicable. Except that Putin seems to have a Trump type taking.
When they met Helsinki for the last time, the prescription was classified as Putin’s appearance in their own spies in the interference factor of the Russian elections. As spy in East Germany, Putin trained in KGB techniques to perceive your enemy and lie to them.
He used those skills all his career, especially with George W Bush, who said naively: `I looked into my eyes and saw a soul. I “.
If Trump is convinced to align about Putin’s in Ukraine, a dictator will have been rewarded for invading his neighbor. The attack will have prevailed. A precedent will have been explained that has alarming implications for other neighboring countries of Russia and more.
In the east, while thinking about Taiwan’s seizure through force, Xi Jinping in China will also receive informed lessons.
The result of all this would not be peace in our time.
Completely the opposite.
While the NATO Defense Ministers meet in Brussels with the Time Table Summit of the Ukraine War, the cities near the line of the front to the east and the south of the country the weight of Putin’s attacks .
These photographs come from the city of Orikhiv in the Zaporizhzhia region, which has suffered an almost correct bombing.
Orikhiv is north of the position in which Ukraine has established one of its main counteroffensive shoves opposed to Russian forces in 2023, however, kyiv’s forces can gain a lot of land.
We get the first photos when it appears that NATO defense ministers come in combination for their “family photo. “
They accumulated in Brussels to begin arrangements for the NATO summit in The Hague in June.
The defense ministers also gave their reaction to Donald Trump’s call with Vladimir Putin, while the two leaders agreed to begin negotiations to finish the war in Ukraine.
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