Trump’s Ukraine envoy to satisfy Zelenskyy in Kyiv amid rising rift – Europe reside

The Ukrainian navy stated that Russia launched 161 drones and about 14 missiles throughout an in a single day assault.

The missile assault focused essential infrastructure within the northeastern area of Kharkiv.

Ukrainian power minister German Galuschenko stated that among the assaults broken gasoline manufacturing services in a single day, Reuters reported.

“The aim of those legal assaults is to cease the manufacturing of gasoline wanted to satisfy the home wants of residents and central heating,” he stated on Fb.

After change of phrases with Trump, Zelenskyy tried to maneuver the tough dialog with the US ahead forward of at this time’s assembly with Kellogg.

In his common video replace on Wednesday evening, he stated it was “essential that this dialogue and our general cooperation with the US stays constructive.”

However in a pointed remark, he added:

“Along with America and Europe, peace might be safer, and that’s our aim. However most significantly, this aim have to be shared by our companions, not simply by us,” he stated.

Fully undeterred by public pushback from a number of European leaders, US president Donald Trump repeated his assault on Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy in a single day, telling the viewers at a Saudi-backed occasion in Miami that he’s a “dictator with out elections.”

Oh, the irony.

He additionally repeated his false claims concerning the US spending on Ukraine, and warned Zelenskyy “he higher transfer quick or he isn’t going to have a rustic left; gotta transfer, gotta transfer quick.”

Individually, Trump additionally attacked Zelenskyy for treating US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent “quite rudely,” as a result of the Ukrainians “wouldn’t signal the doc” confirming his proposed minerals deal. (Zelenskyy stated he wasn’t ready to “promote [Ukraine] away.”)

“They’re not coping with the identical United States as they had been dealing just a few months in the past,” Trump stated.

“If you happen to’d instructed me simply three months in the past that these had been the phrases of the US president, I might have laughed out loud,” former Russian president Dmitry Medvedev stated.

You and me each, Dmitry.

Suppose you’re a chief of a central and jap, Baltic and Nordic European frontline nation. How assured are you that the US would instantly come to the rescue if Russia attacked your territory inside the subsequent few hours?

Precisely. That’s the issue.

A brand new Polish ballot printed in a single day confirmed exceptional ranges of belief in Nato as an entire, with 67% anticipating the alliance to intervene if Poland will get attacked by Russia. On the opposite fingers, that’s 33% considering it wouldn’t. That may be a lot.

Some might determine it’s higher to be protected than sorry and observe the Danish lead in quickly growing defence spending to arrange for what they concern comes subsequent.

Prime minister Mette Frederiksen stated the nation wanted “large rearmament” to keep away from warfare as she introduced Denmark would spend 50bn DKK over the subsequent two years on defence.

The funding brings Denmark’s defence spending as much as 3% of GDP within the subsequent two years (up from 2.4% in 2024), the very best stage in over half a century.

Ought to others observe? Will they? Let’s see.

Amid this disagreement, US Ukraine envoy Keith Kellogg will meet with Zelenskyy in Kyiv at this time, and we predict some traces from that assembly – and extra from throughout Europe. I’ll carry you the most recent.

It’s Thursday, 20 February 2025, and that is Europe reside. It’s Jakub Krupa right here.

Good morning.