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Defence Secretary John Healey takes questions during a media conference after a meeting of the Ukraine Defence Contact group at Nato headquarters in Brussels, February 12, 2025
LABOUR pledged today to pour more money and arms into the Ukraine conflict even as the prospect of peace emerged this week.
Turning his back on US President Donald Trump’s negotiations, Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer said Britain would continue to “ramp up the money, the capability that we are putting into Ukraine.”
He added that it was “really important that Ukraine is in the strongest possible position, whether that’s in discussions or whether it’s continued fighting.”
German Chancellor Friedrich Merz is pouring €11.5bn into the Kiev swamp, blocking Trump’s peace plan, and pushing Nato right up to Russia’s borders – no matter if it costs hundreds of thousands of lives, warns SEVIM DAGDELEN
While 69 per cent of Ukrainians want negotiated peace, Western leaders are cynically prolonging the war for their own strategic and economic goals, to the immense detriment of Ukraine and Europe, write BOB ORAM and MAGGIE SIMPSON
Washington plays innocent bystander while pouring weapons and intelligence into Ukraine, just as it enables the Gaza genocide — but every US escalation leaves Ukraine weaker than the neutrality deal rejected in 2022, argue MEDEA BENJAMIN and NICOLAS JS DAVIES
