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'Army of Europe' needed to challenge Russia, says Ukraine's President Zelensky 

 

Ukraine's President Vladimir zelinski

has called for the creation of an army

of Europe in a speech to the Munich

security conference he says Europe can't

rely on the United States and must act

for its own sake in the face of Russian

aggression this after warning that his

country has a very low chance of

survival without us support to fight the

Russian invasion speaking at the

conference Mr zilinski questioned

Europe's Readiness in the event of a

Russian

offensive Putin clearly sees Belarus

just another Russian Province now and we

need to be realistic if

someone is setting up a military

Launchpad we need to ask what should we

do about it and more importantly what

can we do before the next attack the

next Invasion remember there have

already been provocations on the Polish

and Lithuanian borders with Belarus

migrant crisis staged by Russian

intelligence to store up gals in Europe

but what if what if next time it's not

migrants what if it's Russian troops or

North Korean

troops make no mistake North Koreans are

not

weak they are learning how to fight now

how to fight the Modern War and what

about your armies are they

ready and if Russia launches a false

flag operation or just or just straight

up with with no inia from Belarus like

how Crimea got taken in 2014 how fast

will the Allies

respond well our chief International

correspondent Le duet says the

conference shows the transatlantic

relationship is under severe strain

Ukraine continues to dominate the second

day of the Munich security conference

which very strongly worded speech from

the Ukrainian President Vladimir

zalinski and of course this year's

conference is very much overshadowed by

Europe's worry that they will possibly

be cut out of any peace negotiations and

any future peace with Ukraine and of

course the concerns about the broader

security architecture we're joined here

by the European Union's foreign policy

Chief the vice president Kaya kales

thank you for joining us are you still

worried about the transatlantic

relationship after everything you heard

yesterday here in Munich uh we have to

build our ties with the new

Administration that is clear and we have

to hear what their worries are but it's

clear that we are stronger when we are

all together and we have these threats

coming from outside when it comes to

Russia when it comes to Iran North Korea

but more coverly also China and we need

to work together but do you sense that

the United States will continue the kind

of security partnership that has worked

in the eyes of Europe so well in the

past we have had good meetings with the

Americans uh inside the rooms they are

uh saying that they continue with NATO

we are good allies and and these are the

messages that we also want to hear that

we are in this together of course

publicly they are also um acting um you

know uh and and addressing their

domestic uh public which is sometimes a

bit different the message from America

is that Europe has to do much more you

have to increase your defense spending

you even have to look at your own

societies is Europe going to step up um

we have heard this uh before when uh

president Trump was uh uh in the office

uh last time and since then a lot has

changed because Europeans have heard the

message loud and clear we have uh

stepped up our defense spending uh we

are doing more but of course in the uh

you know situation where Russia is uh

investing more than 9% of its GDP on

Military we need to do more ourselves as

well so we need to do this but we also

need to do it together with the

Americans the main message from

president zalinski one of the main

messages is that he needs security

guarantees the message we're getting

from the United States now is any kind

of security force in the event of a

peace deal will be European owned

European Le and paid for can Europe do

it alone loan the strongest security

guarantee there is and actually the

cheapest security guarantee there is is

the NATO membership because we know that

those countries covered by the NATO's

umbrella do not have war and of course

if we discuss the security guarantees

then we really need to answer the

questions what are these security

guarantees and of course we need to do

them together with the Americans Europe

is doing a lot if you think about the

helping Ukraine we have helped them with

134 billion uh Euros whereas uh

Americans have also done their share and

we need to do this together K Callister

speaking to the BBC's least to set