'Americans believe everything Putin says,' MEP and former general tells Euronews

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'Americans believe everything Putin says,' MEP and former general tells Euronews  In an interview with Euronews' flagship morning show Europe Today, EPP group MEP Riho Terras, who was also a general of the Estonian Army, said that "European people do not understand the urgency of the situation. It is not only about Ukraine."  READ MORE : http://www.euronews.com/2025/11/27/the-americans-believe-everything-that-putin-says-general-mep-tells-euronews  Subscribe to our channel. Euronews is available on Dailymotion in 12 languages

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00:00In an interview with Euronews on the morning show Europe Today,

00:05EPP Group MEP and former general of the Estonian army Rio Terras

00:09said that Trump's 28-point so-called peace plan for Ukraine would decree to Kiev's capitulation.

00:15The US-backed plan presented last week to Ukraine calls on it to cede the eastern Donbass region to Russia,

00:22limits the size of the Ukraine's armed forces to 600,000, and bars Kiev's from joining NATO.

00:27Well, the Americans believe everything that Putin says.

00:30Oh, what do you mean by that?

00:32I am very surprised that Trump runs like an errand boy for Putin's capitulation plan,

00:38which we have seen, 28-point plan, which was a clear Russian plan to make Ukraine to capitulate.

00:47It has nothing to do with the reality, and it violated all the international rules and regulations we have had till now.

00:54The MEP agreed with European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen,

00:59who warned in a speech to MEPs on Wednesday that Russia's playbook has not changed, with Ukraine being just the start.

01:05Russia only understands power.

01:08That means what?

01:09It means that we need to get ourselves much more powerful on the military side.

01:14We need to act in support of Ukraine.

01:17We need to send finances and weapons to Ukraine.

01:19We need to show Russia that there's no way that Russia can go further.

01:24Ukraine has called on its partners to allocate 0.25% of their GDP to military support for Ukraine in 2026.

01:32Terra has agreed that the EU could do more and is already late in providing the necessary financial support for Ukraine.

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