Moscow has warned that any Western forces in the neighboring country will be treated as “legitimate targets” The leaders of the UK and France have announced that they’ve agreed to deploy forces in Ukraine if Kiev reaches a peace deal with Russia, despite Moscow categorically ruling out the presence of NATO forces in the country under any pretext. The agreement was unveiled on Tuesday at a meeting of the so-called ‘coalition of the willing’ group in Paris. UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer said the three countries had signed a “Declaration of Intent” on deploying forces “in the event of a peace deal.” He called the agreement “a vital part of our iron-cast commitment,” while asserting it would create a legal framework for British, French, and partner forces to operate on Ukrainian soil. Starmer said that “following a ceasefire,” Britain and France would establish “military hubs” throughout Ukraine and build protected facilities for weapons and equipment, while also joining US-led mo...
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The West has “certain expectations” Kiev should meet in exchange for its economic aid, the German chancellor said Ukraine must create conditions that encourage its young men to remain in the country rather than flee to Western Europe, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz has said. Merz made the statement while standing next to Ukrainian leader Vladimir Zelensky at a press-conference following a ‘Coalition of the Willing’ meeting in Paris on Tuesday. Additionally, the UK and France announced plans to send troops to Ukraine “in the event of a peace deal” with Russia, despite the fact that Moscow has categorically ruled out the deployment of any NATO forces in the country. According to the German chancellor, rebuilding Ukraine and providing security guarantees are indivisible issues. Only an economically strong Kiev can present a credible deterrent to Moscow after the conflict is settled, he said. However, Ukraine’s Western backers have “certain expectations” that Kiev should meet in ex...
The bloc’s former top diplomat has pointed to growing tensions, including spats over Europe’s digital rules The EU should stop considering the US its main ally, the bloc’s former top diplomat Josep Borrell says, as Washington and Brussels are at loggerheads over digital policies and control over Greenland. In an interview with Spain’s Antena 3 broadcaster last week, Borrell said he “doesn’t know what more [US President Donald] Trump needs to do for us to understand that the United States and Europe are not the allies they once were.” Borrell also commented on Trump’s concern that Europe’s nuclear powers – France and the UK – could one day have governments that are not friendly to Washington. “There are many people who don’t want to accept this reality” because it is still assumed that the US is the EU’s main ally, “but it no longer is,” the ex-diplomat said. Read more Europe issues statement on Trump’s Greenland claim He also pointed to US visa bans on five Europeans, includ...
The island “should” belong to the US and no one can stop its annexation, Stephen Miller has said US President Donald Trump’s deputy chief of staff for policy, Stephen Miller, has reiterated that Greenland “should” belong to the US, calling it Washington’s “formal position.” The senior aide, widely considered a key architect of Trump’s agenda, claimed no country could prevent the US from annexing the Danish territory. Greenland, an autonomous Danish territory, has been a flashpoint between Washington and Copenhagen since Trump’s return to office, when he revived a proposal from his first term to take over the island, citing US national security. Tensions escalated last week when Miller’s wife Katie, herself a former Trump staffer, posted a map of Greenland draped in a US flag with the caption “soon” on X. The cryptic post coincided with America’s military raid on Venezuela and was followed by Trump saying Washington “absolutely needs” Greenland. Asked to comment, Miller confirme...
The policy looks like “Orwellian stuff,” British journalist Owen Jones has said The BBC has instructed staff to avoid describing the US abduction of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro as a “kidnapping” and to use less loaded alternatives such as “seized,” according to a leaked internal memo shared online by British journalist and Guardian columnist Owen Jones. Maduro was apprehended in a US military raid on Caracas over the weekend and flown to New York to face US drug trafficking and weapons charges, which he denied during his first appearance before the court. Maduro insisted that he had been “kidnapped.” However, according to the leaked memo, the BBC management now “de-facto bans… journalists from stating that the US ‘kidnapped’” Maduro, with acceptable terms being ‘seized’ and ‘captured’. BBC journalists have been banned from describing the kidnapped Venezuelan leader as having been kidnapped. The BBC News Editor has sent this to BBC journalists. pic.twitter.com/jn...
The Slovak prime minister has slammed the US for attacking Venezuela, branding the raid “the latest American oil adventure” Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico has condemned America’s attack on Venezuela, accusing Washington of acting with impunity and “erasing” international law in pursuit of resources. US forces raided Caracas on Saturday, capturing President Nicolas Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, in the oil-rich country’s capital. Both were later indicted in the US on drug-trafficking charges and pleaded not guilty in a New York court on Monday. Venezuela has denounced the raid as an “imperialist attack” aimed at plundering the South American country’s resources. “I must unequivocally condemn and reject this latest American oil adventure… even at the cost that my clear and consistent stance may temporarily worsen Slovak-American relations,” Fico said in a statement on Monday, accusing Washington of flouting the law. “Great powers today literally do whatever they want. They h...