The president’s explosive Oval Office encounter reflected his determination to put aside alliances and commitments to principles in favor of raw great power negotiations.
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European leaders pledge to stand by Ukraine after confrontational Oval Office meeting with Trump
Tears and shock in Ukraine and Europe after heated Zelensky-Trump meeting
I’m just crying because of what I hear,” one Ukrainian lawmaker said of the meeting, echoing the reactions of others on the continent.
‘I’m just crying’ – shock in Kyiv, but European allies pledge support after Volodymyr Zelensky admonished by Donald Trump
A confrontational White House meeting between Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky and US president Donald Trump drew exasperation and fear from European and Ukrainian observers, as Kyiv’s hopes of aligning Mr Trump’s view of the war with its own dwindled.
Zelenskyy said Ukraine will not accept any agreement which is struck by ... The phone call between Trump and Putin sent a jolt across Europe while Vance's speech in Munich lambasting European values was greeted with delight in Moscow.
EU foreign policy chief, Josep Borrell, announced new initiatives regarding Ukraine. She emphasized that Europe is united in supporting the country, according to her X account. According to her, as the Munich Security Conference 2025 concluded,
Volodymyr Zelensky deserves the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize for fighting to preserve international law that bans great powers from invading neighbors and seizing land by force.
Allied acquiescence to these moves emboldened him. During the summer of 1938, he demanded that Czechoslovakia cede the Sudetenland with its large German population to the Reich and threatened to take it by force if necessary. With Britain and France as its allies, Czechoslovakia refused. Europe teetered on the brink of war.
Foreign Minister Radek Sikorski of Poland said that Ukraine is too strong to be sold out by foreign powers. "The best guarantee for Ukraine is the almost million-man army, which is manning the foxholes and heroically resisting Russian aggression," he said on CNN's "Fareed Zakaria GPS" in an interview that aired Sunday.
Lawmakers in both parties are expressing skepticism of President Trump’s expected deal to share Ukraine’s mineral wealth, warning it will need a strong buy-in from Ukrainian President Volodymyr
(Tobias Schwarz/AFP/Getty Images) MUNICH — The Trump administration began its first week of negotiations to end the war in Ukraine with a dizzying array of mixed signals that confused and ...
"Leaving Munich with an anxious mood," she wrote. "[Ukrainian President Volodymyr] Zelenskyy made clear Ukraine does not hope for [the] U.S. to work for a just peace. It's up to Europe. Not sure ...
Speaking at the annual gathering, Vice President JD Vance urged European leaders to wage culture wars but ignored Ukraine and downplayed threats from Russia and China.
GREETINGS. The Munich Security Conference may be over for another year, but the reverberations of the past few days are ricocheting across Europe as Ukraine faces a defining moment. We’ll step ...
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