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Zelenskyy discusses security guarantees for Ukraine with Nato, European leaders
5 days, 20 hours ago

Zelenskyy discusses security guarantees for Ukraine with Nato, European leaders

India Today  

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy held talks with Nato Secretary General Mark Rutte and other European leaders on Wednesday, aiming to get immediate help to bolster Kyiv's war effort and discuss longer-term security guarantees. Zelenskyy told reporters that Wednesday's talks in Brussels, and a discussion with the European Union's 27 national leaders the following day, were "a very good opportunity to …

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Trump to Europe: Overseeing a Ukraine cease-fire would be your job
1 week, 4 days ago

Trump to Europe: Overseeing a Ukraine cease-fire would be your job

Live Mint  

The outlines of President-elect Donald Trump’s initial efforts to end the war in Ukraine from his visit to Europe last week are starting to emerge for the first time. At a meeting in Paris on Dec. 7, Trump told Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and French President Emmanuel Macron that he doesn’t support Ukrainian membership in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, …

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The French president raised the prospect of Western troops in Ukraine. What was he thinking?
9 months, 3 weeks ago

The French president raised the prospect of Western troops in Ukraine. What was he thinking?

Associated Press  

PARIS — French President Emmanuel Macron appeared isolated on the European stage this week after saying the possibility of Western troops being sent to Ukraine could not be ruled out, a comment that prompted an outcry from other leaders. There was no consensus to send troops in an official, endorsed manner on the ground, Macron said, “but in terms of …

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Putting Western troops on the ground in Ukraine is not ‘ruled out’ in the future, French leader says
9 months, 4 weeks ago

Putting Western troops on the ground in Ukraine is not ‘ruled out’ in the future, French leader says

Associated Press  

PARIS — French President Emmanuel Macron said Monday that sending Western troops on the ground in Ukraine is not “ruled out” in the future after the issue was debated at a gathering of European leaders in Paris, as Russia’s full-scale invasion grinds into a third year. Macron declined to provide details about which nations were considering sending troops, saying he …

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Germany to redeploy troops to Bosnia over ‘stability’ concerns
2 years, 6 months ago

Germany to redeploy troops to Bosnia over ‘stability’ concerns

Al Jazeera  

Foreign office says, ‘we together with our European and NATO partners will not allow a security vacuum in our immediate neighbourhood’. ‘A security vacuum’ Bosnia lies hundreds of kilometres from the fighting in Ukraine, but faces an increasingly assertive Bosnian Serb separatist movement that analysts say has at least tacit support from Moscow. With Bosnia’s Serb leader Milorad Dodik increasingly …

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EU winds down military training operations in Mali
2 years, 8 months ago

EU winds down military training operations in Mali

Al Jazeera  

The European bloc is involved in two training missions in Mali – the EUTM and the EUCAP – to coach soldiers and police. The European Union has decided to suspend crucial military training programmes in Mali, as relations between Western forces and the West African country’s transitional military government sour further. Speaking at a ministerial meeting on Monday, EU’s top …

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Most European troops exit Afghanistan quietly after 20 years
3 years, 5 months ago

Most European troops exit Afghanistan quietly after 20 years

Associated Press  

BERLIN — Most European troops have already pulled out of Afghanistan, quietly withdrawing months before the U.S.-led mission was officially expected to end — part of an anticlimactic close to the “forever war” that risks leaving the country on the brink of civil war. Germany and Italy declared their missions in Afghanistan over on Wednesday and Poland’s last troops returned …

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