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News18
2 days ago
- Politics
- News18
US Ready To Join Security Guarantees For Ukraine, Says German Chancellor Merz
Last Updated: German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said the US is ready to join security guarantees for Ukraine. The United States is prepared to participate in security guarantees for Ukraine, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said. Speaking to German broadcaster ZDF, Friedrich Merz said he and other European leaders had been briefed by US President Donald Trump following his meeting in Alaska with Russian President Vladimir Putin. 'The good news is that America is ready to participate in such security guarantees and is not leaving it to the Europeans alone," he said. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is set to meet Donald Trump in Washington on Monday. Friedrich Merz said a three-way meeting between Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin and Volodymyr Zelenskyy should follow soon with the goal of reaching a peace agreement. 'If that works out, it's worth more than a ceasefire," he noted. Friedrich Merz added that Donald Trump suggested Russia might be willing to negotiate based on the current front lines rather than the wider regional borders Moscow claims. 'This is a huge difference because Russia is claiming territories that it hasn't occupied yet," Friedrich Merz told ZDF. In a separate interview with broadcaster n-tv, Friedrich Merz said he did not expect Monday's Donald Trump–Zelenskyy talks to be as contentious as their February meeting, when the two leaders clashed publicly. He said European leaders would speak with Zelenskyy on Sunday to help him prepare. 'We'll give a few good pieces of advice," Friedrich Merz remarked. The chancellor also underlined the importance of US involvement in resolving the conflict, saying, 'The American president has the power both militarily and via appropriate sanctions and tariffs to ensure that Russia moves more than it currently does." view comments Location : Germany First Published: August 16, 2025, 23:05 IST Disclaimer: Comments reflect users' views, not News18's. Please keep discussions respectful and constructive. Abusive, defamatory, or illegal comments will be removed. News18 may disable any comment at its discretion. By posting, you agree to our Terms of Use and Privacy Policy.
Indian Express
2 days ago
- Politics
- Indian Express
US ready to be part of security guarantees for Ukraine, Germany's Merz says
The United States is prepared to take part in security guarantees for Ukraine, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said on Saturday, according to Reuters. Speaking to German broadcaster ZDF, Merz said he and other European leaders had been briefed by US President Donald Trump following his meeting in Alaska with Russian President Vladimir Putin. 'The good news is that America is ready to participate in such security guarantees and is not leaving it to the Europeans alone,' Merz said. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy will meet Trump in Washington on Monday. Merz told ZDF that a three-way meeting between Trump, Putin and Zelenskyy should follow soon with the aim of agreeing to a peace deal. 'If that works out, it's worth more than a ceasefire,' he said. Merz added that Trump suggested Russia might be willing to negotiate on the basis of current front lines rather than the wider regional borders Moscow claims. 'This is a huge difference because Russia is claiming territories that it hasn't occupied yet,' he told ZDF. In a separate interview with broadcaster n-tv, Merz said he did not expect Zelenskyy's talks with Trump to be as difficult as those in February, when the two leaders clashed publicly. He said European leaders would speak with Zelenskyy on Sunday to help him prepare. 'We'll give a few good pieces of advice,' Merz said. Merz also stressed that while European unity was important, the US would remain central to the conflict. 'The American president has the power both militarily and via appropriate sanctions and tariffs to ensure that Russia moves more than it currently does,' he told Reuters.
Yahoo
27-05-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
German authorities conduct raid over suspected support for Russian militants in Donbas
On the morning of Tuesday 27 May, German prosecutors conducted a raid on a house in Brandenburg on suspicion of support for Russian militants in Ukraine's east. Source: German TV news channel n-tv, as reported by European Pravda Details: A spokesperson for the Karlsruhe Prosecutor's Office stated that one of the suspects is accused of organising the transport of goods for several years to the territories of Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts occupied by Russia. Law enforcement officials reported that the man is under investigation on suspicion of supporting a foreign terrorist organisation. The property searched is located in the Dahme-Spreewald district. The spokesperson stated that the suspect was not arrested. No information was provided about the specific types of goods supposedly transported. Background: Recently, Politico reported that a German tech company may have exported technology to Russia despite new European Union sanctions imposed over Moscow's invasion of Ukraine. In early January 2025, it was also reported that Finland continues to record attempts to export sanctioned goods to Russia, despite having closed the Finnish-Russian border a year earlier. Support Ukrainska Pravda on Patreon!
Yahoo
12-05-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
Ukrainian envoy hails Merz for keeping extent of military aid secret
Ukraine's ambassador to Germany has praised the country's new leader for keeping the extent of weapons deliveries for Kiev under wraps, in what is seen as an attempt to create "strategic ambiguity" aimed at leaving Russia in the dark about Ukraine's capabilities. After taking office last week, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz agreed with Defence Minister Boris Pistorius to stop detailed publications of arms deliveries to Ukraine, including exact quantities. Merz's predecessor Olaf Scholz pursued the same practice in the first months of the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine launched in February 2022, but his administration later succumbed to public pressure and began publishing a detailed list of the shipments online in June that year. It was last updated on May 6, the day the new government took office in Berlin. Merz, at the time the conservative opposition leader, sharply criticized the practice of keeping the details of arms shipments under wraps. "We are being kept in suspense, there are excuses, there is no precise information about what Germany is actually supplying," he told broadcasters RTL and n-tv at the time, pledging he would "inform the public better" if he was elected chancellor. "A good chess player thinks several moves ahead. What he doesn't do is predict these moves to his opponent," Ambassador Oleksii Makeiev told dpa, welcoming Merz's change of course. Makeiev's predecessor Andriy Melnyk, on the other hand, criticized Merz for his u-turn, calling the approach a "very strange" practice that brought back "bad memories" of Scholz's centre-left administration which Melnyk claimed sought to mask restraint in arms deliveries by secrecy. Melnyk argued that publishing the exact extent of the military aid would send a strong signal to Russia and have a preventative effect.
Yahoo
17-04-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
Ukraine welcomes Bundestag's decision not to invite Russian and Belarusian ambassadors to solemn session
Ukraine's Ambassador to Germany, Oleksii Makeiev, has welcomed the Bundestag's decision not to invite the Russian and Belarusian ambassadors to a special session on 8 May commemorating the end of World War II in 1945. Source: European Pravda, citing German news channel n-tv Details: Makeiev welcomed the Bundestag's decision to exclude representatives of Russia and Belarus from the parliamentary events marking the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II and liberation from Nazism, set to take place on 8 May in Berlin. "This underscores the consistent position of the German Bundestag and the federal government towards representatives of criminal regimes," Makeiev said. "8 May is a day of reconciliation with the past to prevent new wars, not the denial of history to justify them," he added. Background: The Bundestag had earlier announced that the entire diplomatic corps in Berlin, including all ambassadors, had been invited to the commemorative events. However, the representatives of Russia and Belarus were excluded from the invitation. The parliamentary administration cited a recommendation from the Federal Foreign Office as the basis for this decision. Notably, on 16 April, the Russian and Belarusian ambassadors to Berlin, Sergei Nechayev and Andrei Shuplyak, took part in a silent commemoration for those killed during the Battle of the Seelow Heights, despite the recommendation not to invite them. Support Ukrainska Pravda on Patreon!
