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I am one of those who urge the European Union to change its current strategy. The European Union went into this war with a badly organized, badly executed, badly calculated strategy, for which the president of the Commission bears the main responsibility,
Orbán wrote, referring to Ursula von der Leyen Today President Zelenskyy will present his plan for victory. What he outlined yesterday in the Ukrainian parliament was more than frightening,
After this war, Ukraine will have one of the most experienced and largest military contingents,
states the text of Zelenskyy’s peace plan You know Germany’s position on the issues involved. This will not change.”
The German chancellor, Olaf Scholz, arriving at the summit, said Putin must just see that his political calculations are worthless,
Right now he thinks he is prevailing. He thinks Russia is pushing Ukraine to the corner. And this is the worst moment to start negotiations … because Russia feels to be the stronger side.”
Lithuania’s president, Gitanas Nausėda, urged western allies to support Ukraine to press the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, to the negotiating table We are not choosing nuclear weapons, we are choosing Nato, and I think that Donald Trump heard me.”
What he presented yesterday in the Ukrainian parliament is appalling,
But this does not mean more wars, more dangerous weapons and long-range weapons, but it does mean that we need to move from a strategy of war to a strategy of peace. We need a ceasefire and peace talks
the Hungarian prime minister wrote Ukraine is ready for real diplomacy, but for it, we must be strong,
Zelenskyy said as he met with the EU's 27 leaders There are various ways to define victory or to define defeat,
We are not at the point right now where the alliance is talking about issuing an invitation in the short term."
Washington's ambassador to NATO, Julianne Smith, was blunter ahead of the Brussels talks, saying We provide new generators, but the new generators are being destroyed the following days — and we have to stop the cycle of ‘they destroy, we repair,
Winter will be very harsh in Ukraine” because of Russia’s repeated bombing of energy and heating infrastructure
Estonian Prime Minister Kristen Michal also warned of the dangers of cold-weather warfare Europe has the opportunity to help with energy exports, goods, money,
Michal added, while reiterating Estonia’s call for all EU countries to dedicate 0.25 percent of their GDP in aid to Ukraine No country can work without electricity, and 70 percent of the electricity capacity production has been destroyed,
EU top diplomat Josep Borrell told reporters after his arrival at the summit Winter is coming, so we have to prepare,
he said during a joint appearance in Brussels with European Council President Charles Michel, Russia will seek diplomacy only when it sees that it cannot achieve anything by force. We must create the right conditions to end this war,
If we start now and follow the Victory Plan, we will be able to end this war no later than next year,
We've already held four meetings on the points of the Peace Formula. The fifth one is taking place in France today. I am grateful to France for hosting it. We will develop a full-fledged document based on the Peace Formula in November and share it with everyone, including the Russians, at the Peace Summit,