Danny Eberhard
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Britain announces biggest increase in defence spending in decades
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Britain announces biggest increase in defence spending in decades
Stefan Sejournet, er ist der EU-Kommissionär für Industrie-Strategie, ist am Montag in Kiew gekommen, als Teil der Erinnerungen auf das dritte Jahrhundert der vollständigen russischen Invasion. Und er hat das dem ukrainischen Regierung vorgestellt. Er spricht von einem Win-Win-Szenario.
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Britain announces biggest increase in defence spending in decades
And he describes the EU's approach as giving added value because the bloc, he said, would never demand a deal that was not mutually beneficial. He says that Ukraine has 21 out of 30 minerals that the EU sees as critical minerals. And it seems the whole approach is very different to that of Washington.
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Britain announces biggest increase in defence spending in decades
President Trump's approach has been very aggressive, very strident, talking about Ukraine having to Das ist ein großer Unterschied zwischen dem, was Präsident Trump sagt und dem, was Ukraine sagt. Ja, genau. And the EU is obviously trying to source critical minerals from lots of other parts of the world as well. Argentina, Democratic Republic of Congo, these sort of places.
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Britain announces biggest increase in defence spending in decades
Yes, now obviously this is tied in with the wider issue of bilateral talks that the US is conducting with Russia about bringing an end to Ukraine. That's unnerved Ukraine very deeply, it's unnerved European leaders. But it seems that President Trump is approaching the whole war in Ukraine with a very much more transactional approach. And right from the beginning of the talks...
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Britain announces biggest increase in defence spending in decades
He made concessions to Russia on a number of issues, or his officials did. And he raised the prospect of great economic cooperation in the future. So what Russia is doing is saying, yes, we have these minerals. Let's solve the Ukraine crisis, as they call it. They don't refer to it as a war. Let's do that first.
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Britain announces biggest increase in defence spending in decades
And obviously what we're seeing in the broader picture, it seems, is that there's a shift away from issues of international rules-based order, some of the moral positions about why people have to oppose Russian aggression in Ukraine. And there seems to be developing some sort of scramble for resources in a post-conflict environment.
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Canada's PM Justin Trudeau resigns
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Canada's PM Justin Trudeau resigns
Indestructible, proclaims the Special Edition's front cover, above a cartoon of a chuckling man reading Charlie Hebdo while sitting on top of the muzzle of an assault weapon. It's an image that chimes with an editorial from its director and co-owner, known under the nom de plume RIS.
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Canada's PM Justin Trudeau resigns
The desire to laugh will never cease, he writes, casting laughter, irony and caricature as manifestations of optimism – Riss was shot and injured when the two French-born Islamist attackers, brothers of Algerian descent, burst into the weekly's offices and started killing those gathered for an editorial meeting.
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Canada's PM Justin Trudeau resigns
The magazine had long faced death threats after reprinting controversial cartoons depicting the Prophet Muhammad. Charlie Hebdo remains irreverent. Inside is more provocative content – Four pages of winning entries in a competition it organised for the funniest and meanest caricatures of God.
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Israel attacks Gaza in ground offensive
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Israel attacks Gaza in ground offensive
Europe's own defence is one of the main things as well as bolstering support for Ukraine. There is also efforts to try to bolster Europe's defence. There was a white paper presented by the European foreign policy chief yesterday. It takes on basically the idea that Europe must spend massively on borrowing money heavily to invest in defence efforts.
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Israel attacks Gaza in ground offensive
This would help, for example, on issues like joint procurement of military weapons. They've identified a number of priorities, things like air defences, missiles, anti-drone technology, these sort of things. And it will also help to improve joint purchases of weapons for efficiency. So a number of different things that they'll be looking at.
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Israel attacks Gaza in ground offensive
The sense there we got from Gitanis Nauseda that Europe really is facing a very different era now And that urgency is very much first and foremost in their minds.
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Israel attacks Gaza in ground offensive
Good question. It has been on the issue. What Donald Trump's second presidency has given everything is a very new and urgent focus. So Europe is feeling the chill winds of a Washington that is pulling back some of its European commitments. There are questions as to the reliability of the U.S. as an ally. So what leaders are talking about is Europe needs to look after its own defense.
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Israel attacks Gaza in ground offensive
In a very, very short frame, some people are saying three to five years, other people flag up 2030. In the interim period, Europe still depends very much on the security umbrella that's provided by the US. So it has to tread a very sensitive diplomatic line. That's why you won't hear outright condemnation of Donald Trump's approach on the peace process.
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Israel attacks Gaza in ground offensive
You'll hear European leaders welcome that while expressing their own fears and stressing that this is not just about Ukraine's own security situation, but Europe's security as well. Yeah, briefly, how united are they? On the issue of defence, there's a broad consensus that Europe needs to change and change fast. But there is a big division on the provision of military aid to Ukraine.
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Israel attacks Gaza in ground offensive
The main dissenter there is Hungary. It has never provided military aid for Ukraine and it stays away from declarations. It pulls out of them. So the declaration gets signed by 26 EU nations on these sort of things rather than 27.
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Senior Putin aide against temporary Ukraine ceasefire
Ukraine has held territory in Kursk since August when it launched that surprise incursion. It made rapid advances. Russia was unprepared. But then since then, Russia has been fighting back. It even drafted in thousands of North Korean troops. And now it controls about nine tenths of what Ukraine originally seized.
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Senior Putin aide against temporary Ukraine ceasefire
Today, this Thursday, the Russian Ministry of Defense has said that a key town, Suja, has been recaptured. That's the main town that Ukraine has still held. And a respected U.S.-based think tank has also come to the same conclusion there.
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Senior Putin aide against temporary Ukraine ceasefire
Suja was a place where last week, I don't know if some listeners remember, there was an attempt by Russian forces to use an underground gas pipeline to get behind Ukraine. Ukrainian lines.
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Senior Putin aide against temporary Ukraine ceasefire
So a key thing, Ukraine has basically, from its position, says that its main military commander has said that in the most difficult situation, some Ukrainian troops have been withdrawing in order to save lives, but that it would maintain defences in Kursk as long as expedient and necessary. How long that is, is anyone's guess. But obviously, Ukraine is facing an extremely difficult situation there.
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Senior Putin aide against temporary Ukraine ceasefire
Well, let's think back to when it went into Kursk in the first place. What were Ukraine's thinking? It was basically to damage Russian morale, which was quite successful, bringing the war to Russia. That all worked. It aimed to relieve the pressure that Russia was putting on key places on the eastern front in Ukraine. That didn't really work.
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Senior Putin aide against temporary Ukraine ceasefire
Russia brought in other forces and also to relieve pressure on the Ukrainian air of Sumy, which borders Kursk. And another key thing was that he wanted it to have it as a bargaining counter in the event of any peace settlements. Now, the problem here is that if it has to pull out before any peace negotiations take place, it loses any bargaining counter.
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Senior Putin aide against temporary Ukraine ceasefire
And that really starts raising questions about what the Kursk Offensive was all about, the wisdom of that whole operation. So for now, it still holds parts of Kursk. but its hold is getting increasingly tenuous. Whereas for Russia, if it expels Ukrainian troops, that will be hailed by the Kremlin as a great victory.
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Senior Putin aide against temporary Ukraine ceasefire
Example of President Putin defending the motherland, that's classic Kremlin ideology. And it may further complicate the situation for Ukraine in that if Russia was able to free up troops, it could redeploy them to other parts of So, for example, a place like Kharkiv or down to the eastern front.
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Syria's new leader says armed factions will come under state control
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Syria's new leader says armed factions will come under state control
And Rome he has, over deserts, grasslands and mountain ranges. In July last year, Deokato set out from the Long March to Freedom monument in Cape Town that commemorates South Africa's long liberation struggle. More than 500 days later, he finished in West London to the cheers of supporters. He told me how finishing felt.
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Syria's new leader says armed factions will come under state control
Deo conceived this personal odyssey as a way of profiling the history of human migration out of Africa to show we all come from the same place. He's been using running to highlight racism since the murder of George Floyd by a US policeman. On this journey, there were physical hardships. In recent days, he's had to walk due to back pain. And there were other tough times.
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Syria's new leader says armed factions will come under state control
A three-week spell in a South Sudanese jail left him in frail health, and he experienced racism firsthand in Europe, in some hostile encounters where he was treated as an illegal migrant. But there was human kindness too, and joy, meeting his father and younger brother and sister in Uganda for the first time in years, and when schoolchildren joined him in Kenya.
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Syria's new leader says armed factions will come under state control
Despite the trials and exhaustion, it had, he told the BBC, all been incredibly worthwhile. So what's Deo looking forward to now?
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Syria's new leader says armed factions will come under state control
After nearly a year and a half of running to be free, De Okato's now free not to run.
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Ukraine: 'Moscow bombs boarding school'
What we know, or according to the Ukrainian military at least, is that there were only civilians sheltering in the building. The Ukrainian military claims that Russia knows that there were only civilians sheltering in the building as well. And one Ukrainian military spokesperson has said 95 people are trapped under the rubble.
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Ukraine: 'Moscow bombs boarding school'
that there are rescue efforts to try to get them out of the rubble and that groaning and screaming can be heard. Now, the accounts obviously have not been independently verified. So we have seen some pictures, some video and some stills images posted by the Ukrainian military and by President Zelenskyy. It appears to be a school that we can see in Suja, but that has not been absolutely confirmed.
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Ukraine: 'Moscow bombs boarding school'
It's certainly a possible candidate. So there's some evidence, but as we speak at the moment, not enough to be conclusive.
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Ukraine: 'Moscow bombs boarding school'
Buildings such as barracks can be used, obviously, for military purposes as well. We know that there is fighting very close to Suja. Suja has been very badly hit in the fighting, and we know that Russia uses guided bombs to target Ukrainian positions. There is at least one pro-Russian military blog that talks of this being actually a strike by Ukraine.
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Ukraine: 'Moscow bombs boarding school'
alleging that it was an attack from Sumy, which is the Ukrainian region on the other side of the border, you will virtually certainly get very different accounts from Ukraine and from Russia about what happened in this attack.
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Ukraine: 'Moscow bombs boarding school'
It could be an accident. We just don't know at this stage. Ukraine alleges that Russia has been trying to prevent its own civilians evacuating into Russian controlled areas. Ukraine says that it's happy for Ukraine. such evacuations to take place. That's a very serious accusation.
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Ukraine: 'Moscow bombs boarding school'
President Zelensky has accused Russia of using similar tactics to ones seen in places like Chechnya, Syria, and obviously in Ukraine itself, where he says in this particular case, Russia has been bombing its own civilians. You can guarantee that Moscow will not accept that account.
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Ukraine: 'Moscow bombs boarding school'
The Ukrainian military spokesperson in Kursk said that many of the people sheltering there were elderly and bedridden. But we've also heard from the Ukrainian military that women and children were also sheltering there.
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Four Israeli hostages and 200 Palestinian prisoners released in Gaza deal
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Four Israeli hostages and 200 Palestinian prisoners released in Gaza deal
One senior Russian scientist has called the spills the country's worst environmental catastrophe this century. They also affect occupied Ukraine, with contamination spreading to the northern shores of the Sea of Azov and along Crimea's Black Sea coast past Sevastopol. Colleagues at BBC Verify have studied some of the high-resolution satellite images detailing their extent.
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Four Israeli hostages and 200 Palestinian prisoners released in Gaza deal
Certain experts fear the pollution may eventually reach the coast of countries like Turkey, Romania and Bulgaria. Russia says nearly 2,500 tonnes of oil was spilt, although some estimates put it considerably higher. Either way, it's much more than another spill in the same area 18 years ago.
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Four Israeli hostages and 200 Palestinian prisoners released in Gaza deal
The Russian authorities have mounted a vast clean-up campaign, including this complex operation to pump the heavy oil out of the wrecked carcass of the grounded ship. They had to heat the dense fuel oil to 45 degrees Celsius to make it fluid enough to pump. Officials have deployed planes, drones, ships, booms and even divers to dig up and bag tar-like clumps from the seabed.
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Four Israeli hostages and 200 Palestinian prisoners released in Gaza deal
Environmentalists say such deposits would take decades to break down naturally. Efforts to mitigate December's disaster aside, questions also remain as to whether such types of aged tankers should have been at sea in the first place in winter. Some unconfirmed reports suggest the vessels were part of Russia's ghost fleet of tankers, used to evade Western sanctions.
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Hamas says it will postpone Israeli hostage release
In order to limit dangerous global warming, the UN's Paris Climate Accord relies on nations drawing up, and then acting on, plans to cut emissions. Only a tiny fraction of countries are hitting key deadlines. Scientists warn, too, that even some of their plans aren't compatible with keeping temperature rises to 1.5 degrees.
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Hamas says it will postpone Israeli hostage release
That's seen as critical to help limit ever more extreme impacts on humans and the natural world. Scientists calculate it as an average over a 20-year period, but 2024 was the first single year when temperatures exceeded that figure.
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Hamas says it will postpone Israeli hostage release
Two new scientific studies have warned how close we might be to breaching that limit, even when projected over the longer scale, without urgent, drastic emissions cuts.
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South Korea: police refuse to arrest impeached President
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South Korea: police refuse to arrest impeached President
This is a really big scandal. Of all the cases that have faced Nicolas Sarkozy over the years, this is the most important one. It could see him put away for 10 years if he's convicted. There are 12 other suspects, all quite significant players, some former government ministers, a sitting MP among them. They also, like Mr Sarkozy, deny any wrongdoing.
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South Korea: police refuse to arrest impeached President
But the case centres around allegations that millions of euros were paid by Muammar Gaddafi Gaddafi and his men had reports of suitcases full of cash being delivered to French ministries ahead of the 2007 presidential campaign. According to prosecutors, it was struck while Nicolas Sarkozy was interior minister. He says no such charges. transfers were ever made.
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South Korea: police refuse to arrest impeached President
He also has cast doubt on some of the people who've made the allegations. So a former Libyan dignitaries, he says they're people who you couldn't rely on anyway. And he's accused the Libyans of actually fabricating these things as a form of vengeance because Nicolas Sarkozy, although he got very close to Muammar Gaddafi, former Libyan dictator, a sponsor of state terrorism, he also in 2011 was
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South Korea: police refuse to arrest impeached President
part of the international campaign to oust Muammar Gaddafi and sent French fighter planes to enforce a no-fly zone over Libya.
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South Korea: police refuse to arrest impeached President
He's been wading through legal cases largely since he left office in 2012. So he's already been convicted twice. He's been convicted and lost a final appeal last month in one case of corruption and influence peddling when he was found to have
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South Korea: police refuse to arrest impeached President
offered a job to a judge in return for secret information about a separate case and he's got to wear an electronic bracelet in that, although he wants to take that further to the European Court of Human Rights. He's also been convicted in a separate case about alleged illegal funding on the 2012 re-election campaign where his PR firm hid extra spending on that campaign.
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South Korea: police refuse to arrest impeached President
So he's facing other cases too.
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European leaders reaffirm support for Ukraine
It's a work in progress, Val, very much so at this stage. What we have there today, for example, among the leaders, there were some that back it. So people like Emmanuel Macron, Keir Starmer of Britain. But there were others who, although they want to show willing in terms of supporting Ukraine, They were not prepared to send troops on the ground in any kind of eventual future ceasefire scenario.
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European leaders reaffirm support for Ukraine
So, for example, Italy's Prime Minister, Giorgio Maloney, or Poland's Prime Minister. Poland is obviously a very strong supporter of Ukraine, but Poland does not want to send troops to Ukraine. So there's a lot of division still, although the broad message is still one of solidarity towards Vladimir Zelensky and Ukraine.
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European leaders reaffirm support for Ukraine
Well, this is one way that Europe can show it is willing to take responsibility for its wider security on the European continent. So from that perspective, I think the U.S. welcomes that sort of initiative. It's by no means clear, though, how much support really in the U.S. there is for this proposal, for example, to send troops to Ukraine on the ground.
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European leaders reaffirm support for Ukraine
And the backdrop of all this, of course, is that Russia is deeply opposed to any deployment of European or NATO troops to Ukraine. It says it would see that effectively as an act of war and a direct military intervention. So there are still lots of questions about the force itself and also whether in reality it will ever be deployed.
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European leaders reaffirm support for Ukraine
Well, he was raising some of those questions himself. So he was saying that one clear plan is needed on this initiative. And he talked about questions such as what countries will be involved? What was the size and the structure of the force? How would it respond to any threats from Russia? And when would they deploy? Would they deploy after a ceasefire?
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European leaders reaffirm support for Ukraine
Would they deploy when the peace settlement is done up? So he also, of course, consistently stressed the idea that Russia does not want peace, real peace. It's dragging out the war for its own interests. So he is very sceptical, basically, about the whole ceasefire process, although he's taking part in it.
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In terms of military aid, Val, probably not. He did get some commitment, a backing from the EU's foreign policy chief, Kaya Callas, on that request. Therefore, about $5 billion worth of artillery shells. She's proposed an initiative for EU members to get involved in delivering supplies. about two million large caliber artillery shells this year to Ukraine.
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That hasn't actually been endorsed, though, by EU leaders. So for the moment, it's just a proposal. Obviously, Ukraine can't get enough military aid as things stand. We obviously recently had a pause of U.S. military aid that has since restarted. But there are ongoing clashes both on the front line and also strikes, obviously, both
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Trump signs executive order to close Department of Education
from Russia against Ukraine and also Ukrainian drone strikes against Russian territory as well. So the combat, despite ceasefire talk, is still very much ongoing.
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Trump signs executive order to close Department of Education
There's very broad support for Ukraine. It's not unanimous. The big naysayer is Hungary. Viktor Orban, he's an ally of President Trump. He very much believes in President Trump's pushed to get some sort of rapprochement with Russia. He believes that the time is to be speaking peace, and he has never backed military aid for Ukraine.
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So as regards the summit's position on Ukraine, it was backed by all 26 countries, but not the 27th, which is Hungary. There is other nuances within that. So there are, for example, some countries in southern Europe are more interested in some of the challenges they face rather than the challenges that countries in the EU on the eastern front with Russia are facing.
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So countries like Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Poland, they're obviously much more concerned about the military threat from Russia than a country like Spain or Portugal, for example.
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This is a difficult one for the EU because it obviously has a lot of reservations about President Trump's moves and some of what seem like concessions he's made in advance of talks with Russia. But it's treading a very delicate diplomatic line. Europe still depends very much on the U.S. security umbrella, as does Ukraine, for military support against Russia.
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So it's backing President Trump's push for a ceasefire, but it stresses this is not just about Ukraine's security, it's about Europe's security as well. And what's needed is a durable, comprehensive ceasefire in Ukraine so that Russia doesn't restart an aggression later on.
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EU agrees to boost defence spending
Well, this was from a speech that Ambassador Zaluzny gave at Chatham House in London. It sometimes restricts reporting, but this was not such an event. Chatham House had billed it as being on the record and Ambassador Zaluzny knew that his remarks would be freely reported. So he's saying things very much as he sees things.
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EU agrees to boost defence spending
Some of the things he said were things like, it's obvious that the White House has questioned the unity of the whole Western world. Washington versucht, die Sicherheitsprobleme zu delegieren, er spricht von der Ukraine, in Europa, ohne die Partizipation der USA. Und so in der nahen Zukunft kann NATO ebenfalls stoppen, das große Thema zu öffnen, das einige AnalystInnen gesprochen haben.
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EU agrees to boost defence spending
Er sagt, Russland sei von einem Kriegskriminalen geführt und dass durch die US-direkten Gespräche mit Russland die White House die Schritte Richtung Kremlin gemacht hat, um sie halbwegs zu treffen. So he said the next target of Russia could be Europe. He couldn't be much more direct.
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EU agrees to boost defence spending
He absolutely is not just any other ambassador. He was the former commander-in-chief of Ukraine's armed forces from 2021. So he was leading the defence of Ukraine at the time of Russia's full-scale invasion. And for nearly two years after that, he was sacked in February last year when President Zelensky said he wanted to Er hat die militärische Führung erneuert.
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EU agrees to boost defence spending
Aber trotzdem, für viele Ukrainer ist er absolut ein Hero. Er wurde im Mai 2020 als Ambasadur in die USA eingeladen. Und er hat immer eine Reputation für einen straight-speakingen General, anstatt einen Diplomaten. Es scheint, dass er seine Meinung sprechen will, obwohl wir nicht wissen, ob seine Bemerkungen von Kiew von Tassit-Approval erhalten wurden oder ob er nur seine eigene Meinung äußert.
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EU agrees to boost defence spending
Interessant, ja, er wird in Washington erholt. These comments could reignite that row and I imagine General Zalushi knows that he stepped onto treacherous ground, but perhaps he sees it as worth the risk, even if it could conceivably lead to him being sacked.