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G7 ministers link future Russia sanctions to good faith talks

15 Feb 2025

MUNICH (Reuters) – G7 foreign ministers agreed on Saturday to continuing working together to get a strong peace deal for Ukraine with robust security guarantees and linked future sanctions on Russia to good faith negotiations by Moscow. “Any new, additional sanctions after February should be linked to whether the Russian Federation enters into real, good-faith …

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Zelenskiy: Ukraine won’t accept deals reached behind our backs

15 Feb 2025

MUNICH (Reuters) – President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Saturday Ukraine would never accept any peace deals reached behind its back or without Kyiv’s involvement – an implicit message to U.S. President Donald Trump as he strives to end the war with Russia. In a speech to the Munich Security Conference, Zelenskiy also called on Europe …

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German opposition leader joins rebuke of Vance criticism

15 Feb 2025

FRANKFURT (Reuters) – German conservative opposition leader Friedrich Merz on Saturday joined his domestic political rivals in condemning U.S. Vice President JD Vance’s attack on Europe’s stance toward hate speech and the far right. “We stick to the rules imposed by our democratic institutions,” Merz said in a panel discussion at the Munich Security Conference. …

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Russian court puts US citizen in custody suspected of drug smuggling

15 Feb 2025

MOSCOW (Reuters) – A Russian court ruled to place a U.S. citizen, suspected of drug smuggling, in custody for 30 days, Moscow courts press service said on Saturday. The U.S. citizen, Kalob Wayne Byers, was detained by customs officers at Moscow’s Vnukovo airport during a baggage check, the statement said. Russia’s Federal Customs Service confirmed …

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US Defense Secretary Hegseth’s Europe debut irks allies, wins Trump’s nod

15 Feb 2025

By Phil Stewart and Idrees Ali WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s attention-grabbing overseas debut may have irritated some key Republicans and alienated allies in Europe, where his statements on Ukraine and NATO went down like a lead balloon. But his forceful comments gained him a nod from one key listener: U.S. President …

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Germany’s Scholz: debt ceiling will not cap our defence spending

15 Feb 2025

MUNICH (Reuters) -German Chancellor Olaf Scholz on Saturday predicted that a new government would create an exemption for spending on defence and security when dealing with the nation’s constitutional limit on public debt. Scholz said he was sure that the country’s future leadership, to be determined at a February 23 election, would put additional exemptions …

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Europe needs its own plan for security and Ukraine, says Poland’s Tusk

15 Feb 2025

WARSAW (Reuters) – Europe needs its own plan for Ukraine and for its own security or its future will be decided by other powers, Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk said on Saturday. “Europe urgently needs its own plan of action concerning Ukraine and our security, or else other global players will decide about our future. …

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China will ‘play along to the end’ with U.S., its top diplomat says

15 Feb 2025

BEIJING (Reuters) – Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi said on Friday that China will “play along to the end” if the United States is bent on suppressing the country even though Beijing does not wish to be in conflict with Washington. Wang, speaking at the Munich Security Conference, said China would respond resolutely to unilateral …

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Ukraine destroys 33 Russian drones during overnight strike: air force

15 Feb 2025

(Reuters) – Ukrainian air defences destroyed 33 out of 70 drones launched by Russia during its latest overnight strike, Kyiv’s air force said on Saturday. It added that another 37 drones had been “locationally lost” without any negative consequences, typically a reference to electronic jamming. (Reporting by Dan Peleschuk; Editing by Kirsten Donovan)

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