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00:00Trump wants a deal to end the invasion of Ukraine. However, it looks like this deal
00:04is going to be in the expense of Kiev more than Moscow. Europe is cautious.
00:11A Russian drone has struck the protective shell of a nuclear reactor at the Chernobyl
00:16power plant.
00:18Thank you, Mr. President. Thank you, Mr. Prime Minister. I have a question for you as well.
00:27Mr. President, you have suggested, with regards to the Russia-Ukraine war, you've suggested
00:31several things that Ukraine should give up. The idea of NATO membership, territory that
00:37was seized back in 2014 by Russia. What should Russia give up?
00:43Russia has gotten themselves into something, and they said, you cannot have Ukraine going
00:51in in any way into NATO. And I start from that standpoint. I think everybody knew that.
00:58Now, if a better deal can be negotiated, if they are able to make a deal where they can
01:04do that, that's fine with me. I really don't care. I want I want that bloodshed to stop.
01:10Ukraine wasn't in and never requested to be in until more recently. So that's the way
01:14it is, and I think that's the way it's going to have to be.
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02:08Russian drone with a high-explosive warhead has struck the protective shell of Chernobyl's
02:13nuclear reactor, according to Ukrainian authorities.
02:18President Zelensky says the key region was attacked overnight, and the drone hit the
02:23safe confinement of the destroyed fourth reactor unit of the nuclear power plant.
02:29He added, however, that although the confinement sustained significant damage, the fire was
02:34extinguished and radiation levels have not increased.
02:39Russia's invasion of Ukraine has brought repeated warnings of dangers to Ukraine's
02:43four nuclear plants, especially at the Russian-occupied Zaporizhia plant in southern Ukraine.
02:51Rafael Grossi, head of the International Atomic Energy Agency, said the strike on Chernobyl
02:57and military activity near the Zaporizhia plant have left the UN agency on high alert.
03:10Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky issued a stark warning on Friday, saying that Russia
03:15may be preparing an act of aggression against NATO members as early as next year.
03:21He spoke at the Munich Security Conference, where the future of Ukraine is the top item
03:26on the agenda.
03:27And I think this is his idea. And I think that all I've got from intelligence, I think
03:34to my mom, that he's preparing the war against NATO countries next year. And I think so.
03:42But I don't know, you know, I don't have 100, God bless, we will stop this crazy guy. And
03:49we will not have war, any war in the world, in Europe, but you will not stop him just
03:54to say, yes, he said that, we will stop. It's not enough.
03:59Zelensky added that immediate security guarantees for Ukraine are necessary after US Defense
04:04Secretary Pete Hegseth said NATO membership for Ukraine was unrealistic. He said EU politicians
04:11remain very concerned about the US reaction and possible support in case of an attack.
04:16If we are not ready today for NATO, OK, we will wait. But we can't just wait. We will
04:23wait with some security guarantees for today. That's my position.
04:29Zelensky is also meeting US Vice President J.D. Vance in Munich to discuss President
04:34Trump's ideas for a negotiated settlement to the war.
04:41People in Kyiv have reacted to the US President Donald Trump asking Russian President Vladimir
04:47Putin to begin negotiations on ending the war in Ukraine without commitment to Ukraine's
04:53participation in the talks.
05:48In short, if I were to comment on all of this, I would remember my grandmother's words,
05:52a crow will not gouge out a crow's eye. In the third year of the war, to give up Ukraine
06:00like that, I think it's a great humiliation, first of all, for the great American people.
06:06I don't understand how they chose him.
06:08Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, meanwhile, said he will not accept any negotiations
06:15without Ukraine that do not include his country in the talks. European governments also demanded
06:20a seat at the table.
06:27The US Secretary of Defense has called restoring Ukraine's pre-2014 borders unrealistic and
06:33ruled out the country's NATO membership. Former Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmitry Kuleba says
06:38Ukraine must now focus on what remains on the table.
06:42Overall, Russia is interested in three topics, land, NATO and money. And now we see that
06:51land and NATO are already gone without any fight. Of course, Ukraine will continue to
06:59insist on it, but this US position has been set more than squarely. So what stays on the
07:08table is money. And that will be about sanctions, about frozen Russian assets. And the new element
07:16added to it is this raw material agreement that Trump wants to sign with Ukraine.
07:25President Zelensky doubts Europe can fill the gap if US support fades. Ahead of the
07:30annual Munich security conference, Kuleba says the ball is now in Europe's court.
07:35So, high expectations, but I don't think there will be anything new coming from the
07:41US side. What I think could happen is whether Europe is going to speak up. But Europe has
07:52been silent so far. And it has to give its voice. It has to say what is happening, what
08:01is its view on this. Because basically, everything that Trump said and did so far did not only
08:10not match Ukrainian interests, but also European interests.
08:16Ukraine wants NATO membership, but instead there are suggestions of different security
08:20guarantees, such as European peacekeepers. Kuleba believes that to be unrealistic.
08:263,000 kilometers of the front line. 3,000 kilometers. Zelensky said at least 200,000
08:35troops are needed, and he is very humble in his assessment. That means that all the entire
08:43armed force of the entire European Union will have to go through the peacekeeping operation.
08:52Because if you deploy 200,000 to the line, it means that you need to have at least 200,000
08:59at home, resting and preparing for the rotation. The cost of this mission is uncountable. I
09:08mean, I cannot even count how much it is going to cost. And listen, if you have all that
09:16money that you are ready to invest in peacekeepers, it will be much cheaper to give them to Ukraine
09:23to allow it to build up its own army and fight the Russians without exposing the lives of
09:32EU soldiers to the threat of being caught up in fire.
09:37Less than three weeks from the three-year mark of Russia's full-scale invasion, Donald
09:41Trump is pushing for negotiations. The terms, however, remain unclear.
09:47Several people, including a small child, were seriously injured after a car rammed into
09:53a union demonstration on Thursday morning in Munich. Bavarian Minister President Markus
09:58Söder, German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier, and the mayor of Munich, along with members
10:03of the Verdi Union that was attacked on Thursday, left flowers at the memorial. 36 people were
10:09injured. The attack comes a week before Germans head to the polls. German Chancellor Olaf
10:15Scholz is vowing faster deportations, although the perpetrator was living and working in
10:20Germany legally. The perpetrator has confessed, according to the senior state prosecutor at
10:26a press conference. The police suspect an Islamist motivation. Managing Director at
10:33Verdi Munich, Claudia Weber, said she was at the demonstration but did not witness the
10:38attack.
11:04Liv Stroud, in Munich, for Euronews.
11:08Pope Francis has been hospitalized to treat bronchitis and undergo diagnostic tests, the
11:18Vatican confirmed on Friday. The 88-year-old pontiff, who had part of a lung removed in
11:23his youth, has long struggled with health issues, including recurring bouts of acute
11:27bronchitis during winter. He recently suffered two falls, injuring his arm and chin. Although
11:33he continued to hold audiences and preside over events, it is unknown after the latest
11:37hospitalization whether his scheduled events will proceed as planned. The pope is being
11:41treated at Rome's Gemelli Hospital, where he underwent surgery last year for intestinal
11:46scar tissue and a hernia.