Zelenskyy calls for European army as Germany hits back at US over Vance tirade – Europe live

‘Our army alone is not enough, we need your support,’ Ukraine’s president tells Munich security conference

Agence France-Presse has some more on Olaf Scholz’s comments today at the Munich Security Conference.

On Ukraine, the German chancellor said:

We will also not accept any solution that leads to a decoupling of European and American security. Only one person would benefit from this: President Putin.

We Europeans will represent these interests confidently and unitedly in the upcoming negotiations.”

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