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Al Jazeera
Al Jazeera
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Stephen Quillen

Can Europe guarantee Ukraine’s security without the US?

NATO military forces take part in a military exercise at the Smardan Training Area, in Smardan, southeastern Romania, February 19 [Daniel Mihailescu/AFP]

Huddling in London over the weekend, European leaders declared that they would work to pull together a plan to end the war in Ukraine, but with security guarantees for the country that has been the victim of a full-scale Russian invasion since February 2022.

The meeting in the United Kingdom followed close on the heels of a disastrous visit to the White House by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, during which he was publicly berated by United States President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance for resisting their plans for an unconditional peace plan with Russia.

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