00:00NATO Secretary General, fantastic job. Thank you very much.
00:04Seated around the same table at the White House, five European leaders,
00:08the President of the European Commission and the Secretary General of NATO
00:12all rallied around the Ukrainian President to support his demands in the face of Donald Trump.
00:18EU is back at the negotiating table on a possible peace agreement between Ukraine and Russia,
00:24according to this expert.
00:25I dare say that the EU is back, but now we must stay firm and show determination.
00:33And it also means the willingness to accept risk,
00:36especially by giving a security guarantee to Ukraine with boots on the ground.
00:41The European priority was to push for security guarantees for Kiev to be an integral part of
00:47any possible future peace agreement, to protect Ukraine from another Russian attack in the future.
00:52In a U-turn, the U.S. President hinted for the first time that the U.S. might provide Ukraine with security guarantees.
00:59Trump said this time that Europeans have to deliver a security guarantee coordinated by the United States.
01:08That's really a change of view because initially he says this was our job and the U.S. or NATO would not be involved.
01:14So there is evolution there in the good sense, but still it's very short on detail.
01:19What remains to be agreed is what security guarantees the U.S. and EU would be prepared to provide to Ukraine.
01:27Best would be the one closest to Article 5 of the NATO treaty.
01:31A security guarantee means that I promise to go to war if your security is threatened.
01:36Everything less than that is support, but it's not a security guarantee.
01:41The best way to make that credible is by pre-deploying troops in Ukraine after a ceasefire or a peace agreement.
01:49Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Western allies would formalize security guarantees for Ukraine within 10 days.
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