…Says Ukraine will never accept ‘deals reached behind our backs’
Addressing the Munich Security Conference on Saturday, Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy said the “time has come for a European army to be created”.
Zelenskyy said that North Korean troops fighting Ukraine are learning “modern warfare”.
“Our army alone is not enough, we need your support,” he said.
Zelenskyy told the audience at the Munich Security Conference that Kyiv has clear intelligence that Russia plans to send troops to Belarus this summer, reports Reuters.
Zelenskyy has urged European leaders: “I urge you to act for your own sake.” He also asked “If Russia launches attack or false-flag operation, are your armies ready?
Ukraine’s president Volodymyr Zelenskyy speaks during the Munich Security Conference in Munich, Germany, on Saturday. Photograph: Wolfgang Rattay/Reuters
“We will never accept deals reached behind our backs, without our involvement,” Zelenskyy has told leaders at the Munich Security Conference on Saturday.
The Ukrainian president said he would not take NATO membership for Ukraine off the table. “We need coordinated diplomacy … end of this war should be our ‘first shared success.”
Zelenskyy has told the Munich Security Conference that weapons should be fully produced in Europe. He adds: “Europe must decide its own future.”
