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Straits Times
34 minutes ago
- Straits Times
Vance says Europe will have to take 'lion's share' of burden for Ukrainian security
Sign up now: Get ST's newsletters delivered to your inbox U.S. Vice President JD Vance meets members of the National Guard, at Union Station in Washington, D.C., U.S., August 20, 2025. REUTERS/Al Drago/Pool WASHINGTON - U.S. Vice President JD Vance said on Wednesday that European countries will have to pay the "lion's share" of costs for Ukraine's security guarantees. WHY IT'S IMPORTANT President Donald Trump wants to strike a peace deal to end Russia's 3-1/2-year-old war in Ukraine. One of Ukraine's priorities is security guarantees against Russian aggression. Trump has said he will not put U.S. troops on the ground there but could offer U.S. air support. European countries have formed a "coalition of the willing" that would commit forces to guarantee Ukraine's security. With Trump testy about billions of dollars in U.S. military aid to Ukraine so far, the White House has said Washington will not continue "writing blank checks" to fund Kyiv's defense. Trump wants to shift more responsibility for the costs to European allies. KEY QUOTES "I don't think we should carry the burden here.... The president certainly expects Europe to play the leading role here," Vance told Fox News' "The Ingraham Angle" show. "No matter what form this takes, the Europeans are going to have to take the lion's share of the burden. It's their continent, its their security, and the president has been very clear - they are going to have to step up here." CONTEXT Vance said Russia wants some Ukrainian territory, "most of which they have occupied but some of which they haven't." Russia occupies around a fifth of Ukraine, and Trump has said "land-swapping" and changes to territory will be crucial for any settlement. Ukraine opposes conceding any territory, a position President Volodymyr Zelenskiy has said is enshrined in the country's constitution. But Kyiv currently lacks the military capacity to retake all Russian-held areas and has limited diplomatic leverage to force a withdrawal in the short term. REUTERS
India Today
35 minutes ago
- India Today
Europe must shoulder ‘lion's share' of burden for Ukraine security: JD Vance
US Vice President JD Vance said on Wednesday that European countries must take primary responsibility for guaranteeing Ukraine's security, signalling Washington's intention to step back from carrying the bulk of the effort.'I don't think we should carry the burden here,' Vance told Fox News' The Ingraham Angle. 'I think that we should be helpful if it's necessary to stop the war and to stop the killing. But I think that we should expect, and the president certainly expects, Europe to play the leading role here.'advertisementJD Vance on Ukraine war support — "I don't think we should carry the burden here. I think we should be helpful if it's necessary to the war and to stop the killing. But I think that we should expect and the president certainly expects Europe to play a bigger role here." DeeplueCrypto (@DeepBlueCrypto) August 20, 2025 The comments underline a growing push from the Trump administration for Nato allies and European governments to commit more resources to Ukraine as talks continue over possible security guarantees in a post-war stressed that while the US would not disengage, the White House believes Europe must now take charge. 'No matter what form this takes, the Europeans are going to have to take the lion's share of the burden,' he vice president's remarks come as President Donald Trump met last Friday with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Alaska and on Monday hosted Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and prominent European leaders at the White House. Trump is trying to steer Putin and Zelenskyy toward a settlement more than three years after Russia invaded its neighbour. 'We need strong security guarantees to ensure a truly secure and lasting peace,' Zelenskyy said in a Telegram post on Wednesday after Russian missile and drone strikes hit six regions of Ukraine European allies are looking to set up a force that could backstop any peace agreement, and a coalition of 30 countries, including European nations, Japan, and Australia, has signed up to support the chiefs are figuring out how that security force might work. The role that the US might play is unclear. Trump on Tuesday ruled out sending US troops to help defend Ukraine against Russia.- EndsWith inputs from agenciesTune InMust Watch
RTHK
2 hours ago
- RTHK
'Russia must be part of Ukraine security talks'
'Russia must be part of Ukraine security talks' Sergei Lavrov said any talks on security guarantees for Ukraine without Russian involvement is a "road to nowhere." Photo: Reuters Russia said on Wednesday attempts to resolve security issues relating to Ukraine without Moscow's participation were a "road to nowhere," sounding a warning to the West as it scrambles to work out guarantees for Kyiv's future protection. Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov particularly criticised the role of European leaders who met US President Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky at the White House on Monday to discuss security guarantees for Ukraine that could help end the three-and-a-half-year-old war. "We cannot agree with the fact that now it is proposed to resolve questions of security, collective security, without the Russian Federation. This will not work," Lavrov told a joint press conference after meeting Jordan's foreign minister. US and European military planners have begun exploring post-conflict security guarantees for Ukraine, US officials and sources told Reuters on Tuesday. Lavrov said such discussions without Russia were pointless. "I am sure that in the West and above all in the United States they understand perfectly well that seriously discussing security issues without the Russian Federation is a utopia, it's a road to nowhere," he said. Lavrov also accused the European leaders who met Trump and Zelensky of carrying out "a fairly aggressive escalation of the situation, rather clumsy and, in general, unethical attempts to change the position of the Trump administration and the president of the United States personally... We did not hear any constructive ideas from the Europeans there." Trump said on Monday the United States would help guarantee Ukraine's security in any deal to end Russia's war there. He subsequently said he had ruled out putting US troops in Ukraine, but the US might provide air support as part of a deal to end the hostilities. Meanwhile, Nato military chiefs held a virtual summit on security guarantees for Ukraine. "On #Ukraine, we confirmed our support. Priority continues to be a just, credible and durable peace," the chair of the alliance's military committee, Admiral Giuseppe Cavo Dragone, wrote on X after the meeting. This came as Polish officials said that an object that crashed in a cornfield in eastern Poland overnight was likely a Russian drone. Poland accused Russia of provoking Nato countries just as efforts to find an end to the war were intensifying. "Once again, we are dealing with a provocation by the Russian Federation, with a Russian drone. We are dealing in a crucial moment, when discussions about peace (in Ukraine) are under way," Defence Minister Wladyslaw Kosiniak-Kamysz said. (Reuters)
