The President of Lithuania has unveiled his own plan to support Ukraine, calling for an urgent €10B investment in Ukraine’s defense. Following the second round of emergency talks between European and Canadian leaders on Wednesday hosted by French President Emmanuel Macron, Lithuania’s Head of State, Gitanas Nauseda, urged all... #DefenseIndustryUkraine #GitanasNauseda #KristenMichal #NATOUkraine #RussianAssetsArrested #SanctionsAgainstRussia #SecurityGuaranteesForUkraine #SupportUkraine
Second emergency meeting in Paris: France and Germany are ready to take responsibility for peace and security in Ukraine and Europe. After discussions in Paris on Monday, French President Emmanuel Macron held another urgent meeting focused on Ukraine on February 19. He spoke with several leaders from the EU, Canada, Iceland and Nor... #EmmanuelMacron #EUdefense #France #OlafScholz #SecurityGuaranteesForUkraine #SupportUkraine #WarinUkraine
Russia demands that NATO revoke its promise of Ukraine’s accession to end the war, while Zelenskyy rejects any ultimatums. Russia insists that not only Ukraine be denied entry to NATO but also on rescinding the Bucharest Summit decision of 2008 regarding Ukraine’s future membership in the Alliance. “Otherwise,... #MariaZakharova #NATO #PeaceTalks #Putin #SecurityGuaranteesForUkraine #WarEnding #Zelenskyy
The EU is committed to playing a central role in peace talks and is prepared to provide security guarantees to Ukraine. European Parliament President Roberta Metsola noted that the international community must act as a united front on the issue of Ukrainian security guarantees, and Europe bears a special responsibility... #DefenseIndustryEU #EUdefense #PeaceTalks #RobertaMetsola #SecurityGuaranteesForUkraine #WarEnding
Peacekeeping mission in Ukraine: what are the positions of Zelensky and the main allies? President Zelenskyy said that in lieu of Ukraine joining NATO, a strong military and the presence of EU and the US troops in Ukraine could be an acceptable security guarantee. What are Ukraine’s... #DonaldTrump #MélanieJoly #NATO #PeacekeepingMission #SecurityGuaranteesForUkraine #Typhoon #WarEnding
EU leaders discuss the deployment of peacekeepers in Ukraine, and opinions are divided. At the emergency Paris summit on February 17, French President Emmanuel Macron proposed deploying peacekeeping troops in Ukraine. However, Germany, Italy, Spain, and Poland opposed this idea. German C... #EmmanuelMacron #GiorgiaMeloni #OlafScholz #PeacekeepingMission #SecurityGuaranteesForUkraine #SupportUkraine #WarinUkraine
Trump will permit Europe to purchase American weapons for Ukraine and seeks to understand the role Europe can play in supporting Ukraine. US President Donald Trump has stated that he is prepared to allow European countries to acquire American weapons for transfer to Ukraine. This could enable Kyiv to continue utilizing American weapons,... #DonaldTrump #PeacePlan #SecurityGuaranteesForUkraine #USweapons #WarEnding
Britain and Sweden have announced their readiness to send peacekeeping troops to Ukraine. British Prime Minister Keir Starmer stated that his country is ready to send troops to Ukraine to ensure the implementation of a peace agreement, if necessary. Starmer emphasized that any participatio... #KeirStarmer #MariaMalmerStenergard #NATOsoldiers #PeacekeepingMission #Poland #SecurityGuaranteesForUkraine #WarinUkraine
The President of Finland outlines three stages for achieving peace in Ukraine from a position of strength. Finnish President Alexander Stubb emphasized at the Munich Conference that Ukraine should negotiate with the Russian Federation exclusively from a position of strength and presented a plan to foster a... #AlexanderStubb #MunichSecurityConference #NATO #PeacePlan #SecurityGuaranteesForUkraine #WarinUkraine
Zelenskyy presents Ukraine’s alternatives to NATO membership. As NATO membership is not currently under consideration for Ukraine, President Zelenskyy asserts that the country should receive another reliable security guarantee – a military force of 1.5 million s... #MetteFrederiksen #NATO #SecurityGuaranteesForUkraine #UkraineArmedForces #Zelenskyy
Vance on sanctions and military actions: US vice president explains how to compel Russia to negotiate in good faith. JD Vance told the WSJ that the US is prepared to impose new sanctions against Russia and does not rule out the possibility of deploying its military in Ukraine if the Kremlin fails to engage in negoti... #JDVance #Kremlin #PeaceTalks #RussianUkrainianNegotiations #SecurityGuaranteesForUkraine
Kellogg suggests that a peace treaty will include “an agreement on the potential loss of territories.” US Special Envoy Keith Kellogg believes that Ukraine is unlikely to reclaim the internationally recognized borders established in 1991. “I think they will need some agreement on the potential lo... #KeithKellogg #PeaceTalks #SecurityGuaranteesForUkraine #TerritorialConcessions #UkraineArmedForces #WarEnding #WarinUkraine
Ukraine’s mineral agreement with the US is not yet ready to be signed. President Zelenskyy said that the proposed agreement concerning the use of Ukrainian natural resources has still not been finalized. The document does not adequately protect the country’s intere... #MineralAgreement #MineralMining #MiningUkraine #ScottBessent #SecurityGuaranteesForUkraine #Zelenskyy
Three scenarios for the end of the war in Ukraine. Bloomberg analysts have predicted three possible outcomes following the conclusion of the Russian-Ukrainian war: The basic and most likely scenario is that Ukraine’s occupied territories will re... #Kursk #NATO #OccupiedTerritories #PeacePlan #SecurityGuaranteesForUkraine #UkraineArmedForces #WarEnding #WarinUkraine
Weimar+: Europe is ready to increase support for Ukraine and demands participation in negotiations. The heads of diplomacy from France, Great Britain, Spain, Italy, Poland, Germany, and the EU issued a joint statement: “We share the goal of continuing to support Ukraine until a just, comprehen... #DonaldTrump #PeaceTalks #PeteHegseth #SecurityGuaranteesForUkraine #SupportUkraine #WarEnding #WarinUkraine #WeimarTriangle
US Treasury Secretary arrives in Ukraine to negotiate a rare minerals deal. US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said on Wednesday that the minerals deal between Kyiv and Washington would provide Ukraine with a post-war “security shield,” and President Zelenskyy sa... #CriticalMetals #DonaldTrump #PeacePlan #ScottBessent #SecurityGuaranteesForUkraine #WarEnding #Zelenskyy
Ukraine returning to its 1991 borders and gaining NATO membership is “unrealistic.” US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, before a meeting of the Contact Group in the Ramstein format, stated that Ukraine reclaiming its internationally recognized borders established in 1991 is an R... #DeOccupiedTerritories #DonaldTrump #NATO #PeteHegseth #RussianUkrainianNegotiations #SecurityGuaranteesForUkraine #WarEnding
Zelenskyy: NATO membership remains Ukraine’s primary objective, and its military could provide value for the Alliance. President Zelenskyy noted that without security guarantees from allies, any agreement concluded with Russia will only delay the country’s future aggression. NATO membership remains Ukraine’... #DonaldTrump #NATO #SecurityGuaranteesForUkraine #UkrainianSoldiers #WarinUkraine #Zelenskyy
Zelenskyy: Ukraine must first receive strong security guarantees from the US and American peacekeepers to end the war. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said that any effective peacekeeping force deployed in Ukraine must include US troops. He added that European allies do not have enough soldiers to deter Putin ... #DonaldTrump #PeaceTalks #Putin #SecurityGuaranteesForUkraine #WarEnding #WarinUkraine #Zelenskyy
While Ukraine seeks €18B in defense investment, the allies plan to discuss its security guarantees. In 2025, the Ukrainian defense industry’s production potential could reach €34B, Defense Minister Rustem Umerov said at the annual conference of the European Defense Agency. He noted that this r... #DefenseIndustryUkraine #DefenseInvestments #OlafScholz #RustemUmerov #SecurityGuaranteesForUkraine
Macron: Ukraine needs to be provided with the means to survive and the ability to negotiate from a position of strength. The war in Ukraine “will not end tomorrow or the day after tomorrow,” French President Emmanuel Macron said in his address to the French military. According to him, the West’s key ta... #CaesarHowitzers #EmmanuelMacron #France #SAMP/T #SecurityGuaranteesForUkraine #WarEnding #WarinUkraine
Half of Ukrainians consider NATO membership more important than EU membership; the country has a firm position on joining the Alliance. More Ukrainians prioritize their country joining NATO (46%) than the EU (22%), according to three surveys conducted by the Kyiv International Institute of Sociology (KIIS) in 2024. NATO is a priority ... #AndriiSybiha #EuropeanIntegration #NATO #NATOUkraine #SecurityGuaranteesForUkraine
Ukrainians support joining NATO without the occupied territories, but they consider nuclear weapons to be the best security guarantee. According to an Info Sapiens survey, 70.3% of Ukrainians positively assess a scenario in which NATO would invite Ukraine to join with its internationally recognized borders recognized. However, Articl... #Article5 #NATOUkraine #NuclearStatusUkraine #SecurityGuaranteesForUkraine #WarinUkraine
Trump is mulling three options for peace in Ukraine and none involve NATO membership. US President-Elect Donald Trump has three main proposals for ending Russia’s war against Ukraine, none of which involve Ukraine joining NATO: a plan by Special Representative for Ukraine and Rus... #DonaldTrump #JDVance #KeithKellogg #NATO #RichardGrenell #SecurityGuaranteesForUkraine #WarEnding
The EC presents a project to provide long-term security guarantees for Ukraine. A document was presented to the EU member states. The project’s framework includes the following proposals: An effective and sustainable mechanism for providing military equipment that mobilizes the E... #SecurityGuaranteesForUkraine #SupportUkraine #WarinUkraine
What security guarantees should Ukraine expect at the Vilnius NATO summit? Kyiv is preparing to sign agreements on the deterrence of the Russian Federation’s further aggression and security guarantees, which will apply before joining the country joins NATO. Two options are ... #NATOsummit #NATOUkraine #SecurityGuaranteesForUkraine #WarinUkraine
Poland, the Czech Republic, and Slovakia insist on security guarantees for Ukraine before NATO membership. In an article by Prime Ministers Mateusz Morawiecki, Petr Fiala, and Eduard Heger, before Ukraine can attain membership in NATO member states must commit to providing security and political assurances... #EduardHeger #MateuszMorawiecki #PetrFiala #SecurityGuaranteesForUkraine
Germany is ready to provide security guarantees to Ukraine, but not those of NATO. German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said that the federal government could not specify the security guarantees it is ready to provide to Ukraine yet, and they must be discussed with their allies in the Nort... #GuaranteesGermany #OlafScholz #SecurityGuarantees #SecurityGuaranteesForUkraine
