US Vice President JD Vance went after Europe in a speech and meeting with some RightWingNuts afterwards…
The European leaders where NOT pleased….
Zelensky wants Western troops IN the Ukraine as a part of any agreement to a cease-fire….
Efforts to get Zelensky sign off on Trump’s reasources -for -peace did NOT work….
Russia sends a drone into a wall at a Ukraine nuclear power plant….
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Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy said his country wants “security guarantees” and a joint US-Ukrainian peace plan before he enters into any talks with Vladimir Putin to end the war in his country. Zelenskyy held talks with US vice-president JD Vance on the sidelines of the Munich Security Conference, after which both men agreed that further talks were required to see if they could reach a common understanding.
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Vance launched a brutal ideological assault on Europe, accusing its leaders of suppressing free speech, failing to halt illegal migration and running in fear from voters’ true beliefs. In a chastising speech in Munich, the US vice president lectured European leaders on what he claimed was the continent’s failure to listen to the populist concerns of voters.
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The EU’s foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas said Vance’s speech felt like the US was “trying to pick a fight” with Europe. German defence minister Boris Pistorius said Vance’s intervention was “not acceptable”. Norwegian prime minister Jonas Gahr Støre criticised Vance for “not addressing some of the key security issues that we face today,” which he called a “missed opportunity.”
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Britain’s foreign secretary David Lammy said he and Vance agreed thatZelenskyy must be part of any peace talks to end the war with Russia. Lammy said he was “very encouraged” in his conversations with Vance about Ukraine.
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The Kremlin is assembling a high-level negotiating team to engage in direct talks with the US to end the war in Ukraine, according to a report. Members of the Russian negotiation team will reportedly include top-level political, intelligence and economic figures, including Kirill Dmitriev, a close adviser to Putin and outspoken supporter of Trump, suggesting that a key focus of Russia’s negotiating strategy in likely to be on sanctions reduction.
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Yulia Navalnaya, the widow of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, warned that there was “no point trying to negotiate” with Putin, amid talks on ending the Ukraine war. “There are only two possible outcomes for any deal with Putin. If he remains in power, he will find a way to break the agreement. If he loses power, the agreement will become meaningless,” she said.
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A Russian drone carrying a high-explosive warhead struck the protective containment shell of the Chornobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine overnight, Zelenskyy said. The attack came hours before the start of the Munich Security Conference…..
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and US Vice President JD Vance met on the sidelines of the Munich Security Conference on February 14….
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