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We fully commit to the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Ukraine. Ukraine should be given strong security guarantees.”
The Baltic-Nordic group said I want to preserve the optionality here for the negotiators and our respective teams to bring this thing to a responsible close.”
Vance, who was flanked by the secretary of state, Marco Rubio, and the special presidential envoy for Russia and Ukraine, Keith Kellogg, refused to go into the details of any peace plan, saying We need to be honest here, and we need to avoid outrage and outcry. Because if we listen to the substance of the remarks, we not only understand where they are coming from but recognise there are some remarks we can agree on.”
Offering an olive branch, she told the conference Our first meeting, not last, I’m sure,
If he will choose our side, and if he will not be in the middle, I think he will pressure and he will push Putin to stop the war,
Only in this case I'm ready to meet,
Zelensky told the Munich Security Conference before seeing Vance I believe that by working together, we can deliver that just and lasting peace,
We are going to have all this money in there, and I say I want it back. And I told them that I want the equivalent, like $500 billion worth of rare earth,
the president recently told Fox News Really, what we need is to speak more, to work more and to prepare the plan of how to stop Putin and finish the war,
I believe deeply that there is not security if you're afraid of the voices and opinions that guide your people, ... if you're running in fear from your own voters, there is nothing America can do for you."
While the Trump administration is very concerned with European security, and believes that we can come to a reasonable settlement between Russia and Ukraine, we also believe that it's important in the coming years for Europe to step up in a big way to provide for its own defense,
The threat that I worry the most about vis-à-vis Europe is not Russia; it's not China."
Vance lectured Europeans at the conference, telling them What I worry about is the threat from within, the retreat of Europe from some of its most fundamental values, values shared with the United States of America,
We want the killings to stop, but we want to achieve a durable, lasting peace, not a kind of peace that’s going to have Eastern Europe in conflict in just a couple of years down the road."
We really want this very much, but we need real security guarantees, and we will continue our meetings and our work, and we will be very happy to see General Kellogg also in Ukraine."
He will not stick to cease-fire and that’s all. That is why I told the president [Trump] that I think phone calls are phone calls. But don’t make any decisions on Ukraine without Ukraine. And it is not about me, it is about the entire country. If we agree on a pause it will help Putin. And I don’t want to go [down] in history as [the] president who helped Putin to occupy my country,
Trump is stronger than Putin, I think so. But these phone calls with Putin are risky to us,
A peace treaty cannot be signed in Munich, because this is Munich and we remember what things were signed here in the past,
Zelenskyy added at the panel on Friday, referring to the 1938 Munich agreement that led to Nazi Germany occupying the Sudetenland I will meet with Russians — with only one Russian guy, with Putin — only after we will have a common plan with Trump, Europe,
He said to me: ‘I think Putin wants to resolve the war’. I said to him that he is a liar, you can count on it. I hope you will pressure him because I don't trust him,
