ukraine? what are things where ukraine could be more flexible, especially when it comes to shaping the conversation? mr. poroshenko: thank you very much for the invitation. i'm very happy to see all of you. thank you for being together with us now. i appreciate the you norma support we have from the united states, all 11 years of the war. this is not just one day, it is exhausting, difficult, heavy 11 year war. not only for ukraine, for freedom, for democracy. we should stop in ukraine, it would be more efficient, it would be cheaper than trying to stop the baltic states and somewhere else. i want to make a short commence, the leader of the solidarity party, the second-biggest party of the european parliament. i never thought that i planned to participate in this kind of ambition. i said definitely yes i want to participate in the future election. in the election to european parliament, for ukraine as a member of the european union. all 11 years, i do my best for ukraine to sign the associatio

, ukraine has to make decisions. what we are working to do in the time we have left is to give ukraine to give our own country and the allies and partners that support ukraine the strongest possible hand to use next year and beyond. if ukraine determines it has to fight we have to make sure they have the money and munitions and mobilized forces. if it chooses to engage in the negotiation and that assumes if putin and russia have any intent of doing that, we want to make sure that is a position of strength. from my perspective, what i'm trying to do is give the incoming administration the strongest hand to play in all of these areas and pass the baton because the world doesn't stop because we have a political transition underway. that's what i am focused on in the remaining time. this is one of our closest partners and allies, we welcome to reject the decision and he fold up on that and in our judgment and any political disagreements need to be resolved peacefully and with the rule of law. it has been an extraordinary

to ukraine.... sorry. no, no, i'm sorry to interrupt, but i guess the obvious point is that there's a question of scale here. vladimir putin clearly is prepared to lose thousands and thousands of military personnel in pursuit of his waraims. some days it seems russia is losing well beyond 1,000 troops per day. he can afford to do that, it seems. ukraine most certainly cannot. well, if we have all the support, i would even say when we have all the support coming from partners and from our own industrial base and from our society that is needed to keep russia at least where it is, then we can demonstrate good results on the battlefield. so again, we have to focus on solving problems, which would be to increase the output of our own defence industrial base, but also the continuation and stepping up the support coming from ukraine's partners. if the war was only about the scale, we would have already lost. just a few days ago, in the financial times, you said, "if it continues like this, we will lose

the war in eastern ukraine. victory in ukraine. my first question for the panel, explain what victory in ukraine means. how would you define it? most allies have yet to do it. the definition of victory. >> thank you. let me first go back to the introductory video. it really stirred a lot of emotion in me. one of my most recent visits to ukraine was in april on the catholic easter. on easter monday, i joined the ceremony of the opening of his shelter. a jewish settlement in kyiv. we celebrated the rabbi's birthday. on my most recent visit, i attended the vigil of one of his sons who died. a lot of emotion here. victory means protecting values. restoring sovereignty integrity and political independence to ukraine. that is the ultimate goal. i know that does not happen overnight. if wars are not won in the first few days or weeks, -- we find ourselves in a situation where we have a line of contact. making progress, slow at a very high cost. a geopolitical situation that is pushing for a cease-fire. looking into the future, a cease-fir

and the west trumps designated special envoy for ukraine general keeps calendar as a plan to bring ukraine and russia to the negotiating table. but will content even consider in precedence? a lensky may have to pay a high price for peace, especially if he wants to get the nato protection. he hopes for, by temporarily giving up some territories. on to the point we ask war and peace. a deal with food teams at the expense of ukraine. the welcome to this week. to the point, i'm probably going to get us. it's good to have you with us. let's meet today's guests off. how you last is an expert on defense and security policy, military operations, and arms control with the european council on foreign relations. who must be guard is a journalist and military blogger, specialized in defense and security policy, and determine when dispatched here in berlin. and ma'am, you don't is our militarily analyst with kings college london joining us from the city of munich 12. you're welcome and thank you for being here today to lunch. i'd like to start with you november just saw the worst losses for a crane sin

more weapons to ukraine, troops, boots on the ground in ukraine when donald trump says he can end ite to approach, understand who it is you are talking to. and i use this approach when i was ambassador, i never asked the russian government for anything. i was warned by a pretty savvy, uh, it was actually a russian orthodox bishop who once warned me... he said, never, ever ask the russian government for anything. they will interpret it as weakness and won't take you seriously. so i would always tell the russians, respectfully, what i thought the situation was, whatever the issue was, what the united states was going to do about it and let them react. so negotiations, the way we conceive of negotiations in the west, if we approach it in that, way, as we've done in the past, it will inevitably lead to failure. so how can this end? more weapons to ukraine, troops, boots on the ground in ukraine when donald trump says he can end it in one day? is that even possible? no, no, i mean, the war... i mean, uh, that's i mean, that's as zelensky has said, that's that's political rhetoric. that's

a deal with booting at the expense of ukraine. the welcome to this week. to the point, i'm probably going to get us. it's good to have with us. let's meet today's guests across how you last is an expert on defense and security policy, military operations, and arms control with the european council on foreign relations. who must be guard is a journalist and military blogger, specialized in defense and security policy, and determine when dispatched here in berlin. and ma'am, you don't is a militarily analyst with kings college london joining us and from the city of munich 12. you're welcome and thank you for being here today to us. i'd like to start with you november just saw the worst losses for a crane since 2022 of what is the current state of the war? well, the war, some people even say ukraine is in a position with a city or rating by a today. obviously, of a number of weapons, a number of ammunition delivered is not enough, but what's worse is that ukraine is running into problems. was personnel, not enough soldiers, high attrition rate or higher high

we have to make sure that ukraine is in a position of strength so that in those negotiations, ukraine can get what it wants and we can prevent putin from getting what he wanted when he started his full onslaught on ukraine. obviously, when we get to that moment unequal i think we all pray for the moment when that will for that moment to arrive , we will have to discuss many things. at the same time, -- i will not speculate. we -- who will be or will not be at the table. i think we should consider it completely and fully on making sure ukraine gets to the negotiation. so no comments from me now on , who should then be negotiating. >> ok, thank you. we will go to deutsche welle. yeah, on the fourth floor. >> thank you for this opportunity. >> good morning. >> my question is not simple, but it sounds simple. is ukraine closer now to nato membership than it was before this meeting? because will know what they came here with, and the position was quite strong and categorical that there is no alternative. is it closer now to being a nato member, or not? >> well, let's not forget that in 200

-ukraine policies. you know the incoming president, donald trump, you have worked with him, your terms have overlapped. you have spoken in positive terms about your work with donald trump. you talked about action and without the policy that you have experienced with donald trump. so can you tell us a little more, what do you expect from this incoming u.s. administration, especially with special envoy he's appointed as special envoy ukraine and what ukraine would expected, what are the red lines you would want to set out for ukraine in the beginning. one of the red lines that ukraine could not accept negotiations and what are the things ukraine could be more acceptable especially shaping the conversations in d.c. >> thank you very much for the invitation. i'm really happy to see all of you and thank you very much, indeed, for being together with us now. i really very much appreciate for the enormous support we have from the united states, all 11 years of the war. just want to remind you that this is not

and the west trumps designated special envoy for ukraine general keeps catalogs as a plan to bring ukraine and russia to the negotiating table. but will continue even considering presidents of lensky may have to pay a high price for peace, especially if he wants to get the nato protection. he hopes works by temporarily giving up some territories. on to the point we ask war and peace. a deal with qu, team at the expense of ukraine. the welcome to this week, to the point, i'm probably going to get us. it's good to have you with us. let's meet today's guests across how you last is an expert on defense and security policy, military operations and arms control with the european council on foreign relations . who must be guard is a journalist and military blogger, specialized in defense and security policy, and the german windows vast. here in berlin, and monday, now you don't, is our military analyst with kings college london joining us and from the city of munich 12, you're welcome. and thank you for being here today to lunch. i'd like to start with you in november just saw the worst losses fo

it's not about ukraine. i remember as a former chair of the foreign relations committee 200 attempts of dialogue with russia to achieve a cease-fire. i don't believe that trump is interested in minsk three because he wants to be a winner. actually this war is a winnable one. let's start this as long as it takes approach, this year of escalation. let's stop this practice when russia is overprotected and ukraine is oversupported. this is really important to understand. so it's not about ukraine anymore. this is the era of tyrannies which started already the high world war iii. let's confiscate russian -- [ indiscernible ] 300 billion. if you are not ready to ramp up production, we in ukraine ready to do it. israel, taiwanese successes of ukrainian drones. give us money. give us more money like denmark did, like norway did. invest in ukraine defense, because ukraine will become a defense cop. it's already happened. after confiscation of russian sovereign assets, it's important thanks to biden, too little too la

you said last month that ukraine is sweden's number one security priority in ukraine has the full right to defend itself inside and out of its territory. i wonder if you could talk about how you want your pan side of things see a negotiated settlement, particularly in one where they continue to occupy part of ukraine. what does that mean to sweden and what does that mean to europe. at there's a cease-fire, what are the next steps. i want to ask you the question about ukraine and nato. perhaps my understanding of it is not correct. the level of commitment that is been made to ukraine. >> short-eared thank you for the invitation to this panel. great to be back. last year came as a partner in this year came as an ally. from our perspective, this is so closely connected, what is happening in ukraine i was supporting ukraine the right thing in the small thing to do. we see this supporting ukraine. we are very concerned with this happening. i think there is a false narrative that russia is winning this war. 1000 days into a war with russia russians have not received any of their main strategi

they can't even beat ukraine. so, i would like to see 10% slashes in defense spending, and let's get it down to a reasonable level. i think threats to the united states are wildly overblown. and obviously, we could use that money much better at home. thanks, guys. >> well, caller has a point of view. we are wildly understanding overspending on defense. if you take a closer look, certainly not the case. now, we are hovering about 30% of gdp dedicated to defense to actually go lower to about 2.5% if you look out in the defense program out to 2030 or so. by historical standards, during the height of the cold war, when president reagan was in office, we were at 6% during korea. it was about 12% world war ii, it was about a third of what we are spending. what we have today in terms of defense spending as a percentage of gdp, gross domestic product, is actually what we were spending roughly at the end of the cold war. it surprises a lot of people. now is a moment when truly there was no competitor. we had the feet of th

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a, you know, ukraine is still losing ground in the east to russia. it's been struggling to find fresh school for the opinion. polls here are suggesting that a majority of ukrainians now wanted to see like on pre negotiated into the small as quickly as possible. and many people who all seem to feels like us president elect donald trump, might be best place to do that to kind of lean on both russia and ukraine to end up with the conflicts out on some of the acceptable terms. within the same time, i have to say that is also exciting in keys, but the incoming topic ministration could go to a call to reduce the thoughts of critical us some of the 38 to ukraine. that will also somebody's here that you know, trump promises in this conflict very quickly called pressure ukraine into accepting some kind of a bad b, which would leave, you know, chunks of, instead of 3 to russia and without security gavin trees to tell any kind of future aggression for most of uh from las go, but i have to say that if you look at opinion for donald trump for being supposedly qui

will russia move assets, shift focus now towards ukraine?ically let asaad fall. they don't have the wherewithal to focus on any other part of the world because they are drained in ukraine. i do think that overall, this weakens russia's hands and it may make them somewhat more compliant, the kremlin, when they do sit down at the negotiating table with zelensky. prince andrew says he's "ceased all contact" with a chinese businessman banned from the uk after accused of being a spy. in a statement the prince said "he'd met the individual "through official channels, with nothing of a sensitive "nature ever discussed, and he's now acted "on the advice of the government after concerns "were raised." china has condemned the decision to ban the businessman, who's been described as a close confidant of the duke. dominic casciani has the details. a prince under pressure again — this time over his relationship with a mystery businessman we're not allowed to name, now revealed by the courts to be a likely spy targeting the royal family. for ten years, pr

more weapons to ukraine, troops, boots on the ground in ukraine when donald trump says he can end ity? is that even possible? no, no, i mean, the war... i mean, uh, that's i mean, that's as zelensky has said, that's that's political rhetoric. that's not possible. putin is not going to, uh, stop the war, particularly when there are ukrainian troops on what was, you know, pre—2014 uh, territory of of the russian federation. uh, near kursk. so no, we in the west, notjust the united states... there needs one thing.. there needs one thing. i think trump is right about is burden sharing. i'm as worried about developments in berlin as i am about developments in washington with respect to support for for ukraine. with respect to support for ukraine. so i think there needs to be burden sharing in the west to provide support for for ukraine to resist russia's military aggression. i think the best we can hope for at this point in the short term is, uh, you know, a frozen conflict, a frozen line of contact. uh, we have we've lived with that on the korean peninsula for many decades, and without a

the new european foreign policy chief has made an unannounced visit to ukraine, ukraine's president for a lot of his the landscape hosted a meeting with kaya calis, who reassured him of the european union support in the war with russia. callus took office as foreign policy chief a few hours earlier. the training president also spoke about ukraine one day joining the military alliance nato. let's hear what he had to say. without somebody i put them on the agenda also includes welcome. they took an invitation for your train to join nato is a necessary thing for all survival. visually, we're looking at all levels to strengthen the position of the train and the entire us and to community one think i'm grateful to incidentally, one who helps us coordinate the auth number the bottom line. let's get more on this from our report in mac, xander in keys max, the use top foreign policy official in keep on her very 1st day and all says that she's specify what support she could provide to ukraine or was it is more a symbolic visit. right? i mean, every time a leader comes to ukraine, especially duri

why would ukraine in intelligence even want to kill ego, a korea to those? i mean, as, as the discussion earlier mentioned, there are certainly strategic reasons why for killing q loved because it was in charge of chemical biological and, and around the logical weapons. and i think there are also some political reasons because it wasn't very often behind these information campaigns and went to try to undermine the support for ukraine, especially in the west such as the west bottles. i liked by your labs in ukraine, which was a clear f word by russia of spreading this information. what does this tell us about the gaps in russian intelligence? i suppose what i'm getting at is why would a high ranking general like resolve, be that exposed? there is an interesting question. i think it tells us that certainly russian counter intelligence is not as for me to bull as it seems when he comes to, for example, uh, domestic repression. and that, uh, ukraine was able to recruit an agent whether the person that has been arrested is the actual corporate. they were able to

ukraine policy. here's how hunter biden came to join burisma's board in april 2014. he brought on the board by devin archer. his business partner, devin archer was college roommates with chris hynes steps of secretary of state john. all three men. hunter biden devin archer and chris hynes had all started an investment firm together. public records show that april 16th, 2014. devin archer meets with vice president biden at the white. just two days later, on april 18th, 2014 is when hunter biden quietly joins burisma. according to public reporting, remember, this is just one month after the united kingdom's serious fraud office opened a money laundering case into burisma. hunter biden joins the board and only ten days after hunter biden joins the board. british authorities seize. $23 million in british bank accounts connected to the oligarch still chayefsky. the owner of burisma. did hunter biden leave the board then? no. the british authority has also announced that it had started a criminal into pote

i've chosen to side with ukraine. something most go has pointed out, so that has now been confirmed by the chief of the us based and g o. the support says the mists in syria, the 2 nations syrian rebels and ukrainians are fighting for the country to be free of tyranny, an outside occupation. it's natural for them to coordinate. what it really comes down to is the united states again. support in rebels. uh, you know, in the name of fighting terrorism, terrorist, so that they created, and then they fight with russia to try to eliminate it. they are illegally occupying syria. and, you know, it's just crazy in a situation where russia has to fight another front. and you know, for the united states to point that them and say, you know, g there a dictatorship, they are against democracy. so it's really a propaganda point for ukraine to start talking about, you know, we're fighting for democracy and freedom of the country. you know, if you want to talk about freedom and democracy for a country, then you should be talking abo

most people here in ukraine... i think ukrainian politicians in public will welcome it, but actually most people think that that's a case of too little, too late. as i say, these attacks have been going on for months now. president zelensky says that ukraine needs an additional 10—12 entire patriot air defence systems just to keep ukraine's skies and energy infrastructure safe from russian attacks. western countries have pledged far less than that, and people here pretty disillusioned with the west in general, but particularly withjoe biden, actually. they see the president as someone who doesn't give enough support for ukraine, who only gives perhaps enough arms and money to keep the ukrainians fighting and dying, frankly, without giving enough for victory. the mood here is pretty gloomy, right? the war�*s not going well for ukraine, russia is advancing in many places across the front line. in the last few days, they have seized a number of key villages in the east of the country. they are closing in on the key st

when i'm in the mood in ukraine associated golfing dock. oh you do. i think people are exhausted, often nearly 3 years of war. you know, everyone sure has lost a family members or friends. you know you clean and still losing ground in the east to draw. sure. it's been struggling to find fresh school for the opinion full if you're all suggesting that a majority of ukrainians now wanted to see like on pre negotiated into the small as quickly as possible. and many people into all seem to feels like us president elect donald trump, might be best place to do that, to kind of lean on both russia and ukraine to end up with a conflict i on somewhat acceptable to i'm sort of the same time i have to say that is also exciting in keys, but the incoming trump administration could go to what's called to reduce the got a critical us some of the 38 to ukraine. that will also somebody's here that you know, comes promises in this conflict very quickly, could pressure ukraine into accepting some kind of a bad b, which would leave, you know, chunks of, instead of 3 to ru

conflict in ukraine.owever it concludes, we are going to have a very big russia problem. we are going to have a situation where russia is reconstituting its force, it is located on the borders of nato, is led by largely the same people as it is right now, is convinced that we're the adversary and is very, very angry. so we have a big russia problem looming as well. so the answer here is, yes, you have to do both. the trick is that industrial production and our industrial base has to support that ambition. the money's there. you've heard this across the board from jens. the money's being produced by nations right now. we're having a little bit more of a challenge having stuff to buy and that's really a strategic problem for the alliance. if i can tie this to a couple of the other responses that came , stefano's discussions about the european union and what they're doing to fortify, this is really an important part because they're working hard on the industrial base. so the washington treaty has the famous

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can you go a little bit further with what you've done to support ukraine and i know ukraine has said that it hopes to get more from chucky a that it expected more from check. yeah, i know there's a lot of discussion about, uh, ammunition and, and, and whatnot. but from my trips to eastern europe, i know that there was a norm is support, enormous cash arms flows. but can you make this more tangible for viewers who may not understand how deep the support has been? so the tech support still your crime? it's a wide range of activities political support on the diplomatic front. it's economic support. so to to you money, it's military support. the not only selves are also pro life and gift quite a lot of immunization and knobs. so it is a comprehensive, a support video goes from chicky. um, so as you can look a few minutes around and development 8, for example, for displace people in any. i mean, the early word we've heard from president trump and some of the people that are around him, like mike waltz, the incoming national security advisor is an expectation that they're going to pressure

is a party to by using chemical weapons against ukraine soldiers. ukraine is documented over 4000 occurrences of the use of the chemical sorrel playground on the battlefield. clarified, print is described as a chemical similar to tear gas because it produces many of the same symptoms, such as difficulty and breathing watery eyes, vomiting, etc. it also has ever cultural industrial uses as well. how well, chloral pipe grid is considered a very hazardous and here in the united states, the environmental protection agency categorizes it. as a restricted use pesticide, it has strict limits for human exposure due to the city. now this is quite different than normal, right? control agents such as c, n or cs, which is the us designation for tear gas. and it's also no matter because the chemical weapons convention or bits the used to provide control agents on the battlefield as well. right. so in megan, i sorry, i just wonder how are you. i just want to jump in to follow up on something. you said that you did you said that this assassination was in an attempt to deliver justice, but do you think it wo

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i used to start a lawyer place agent, no grants, cube of ukraine. the states serve as the is bull control reports annually on the volumes of its international arms trade. but these are only the official figures covering recent years on the, the rail volume of width is exploded from ukraine or in mystery to everyone. but nice, a little video with, with, with the shaded little fish is i don't, the last year was it was a splendid. so we're going to double missed the pro, intents and purposes, syria now ceases to be a sovereign states. it is in the process of being partition. a new international proxy war has been ignited in the region with low terrace and power when states disappear. so do people the the look of the store circle is useful. what is a lot of the desires just the special chester solution as soon as i would have to store the opportunity and they have that's a hard from posters on. if we, if we, we last time we'd get the key thing a desktop shift key that puts you some way in screening. and what's the much, the key is not the quarter each s

as ukraine is.he same argument can be made there that is being made i think validly in ukraine. i totally agree with what john just said. which is if these countries which have worldwide ambitions are allowed to take over sovereign countries, which they are pledged not to do, remember the u.n. charter calls the respect of every countries sovereignty and in the case of ukraine, , russia was a signatoy to the agreement in 1994 when ukraine got rid of its nukes in exchange for russian respect for its sovereignty. that would be for starters. total violation of sovereignty. secondly, the u.s. is enormously interdependent with taiwan, especially in the chips and advanced computer energy. we cut off taiwan. i mean if they cut off taiwan, it's very hurtful to us. >> so the audience here put at lower levels of risk nuclear threat, climate change, , global nationalism, strength of the dollar, the refugee migration issues. is that appropriate or do you think those are of a lower-leve lower-level, low order of

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they can even be ukraine. so i would like to see 10% flashes in defense spending and let's get it down to a reasonable level. i think the threats to the united states are wildly overblown and obviously we could use that money much better at home. thanks guys. >> the caller has a point of view that we are wildly overspending, we can take an historical look that is simply not the case. i know we are hovering 3% of gdp, its exit going to go lower to about 2.5% if you look at defense programs at about 2030 or so. and by historical standards during the height of the cold war when president reagan was in office we were at 6% during korea, it was about 12% at world war ii, one third of what we were spending. what we have today in terms of defense spending as a percentage of gdp grows to mastic product is actually what we were spending roughly at the end of the cold war. that was the moment when truly there was no competitor, we had defeated the soviet union, we were taking a peace dividend and roughly about the same