Article 72ZXH Zelenskyy meeting with Trump expected to take place on Thursday – Europe live

Zelenskyy meeting with Trump expected to take place on Thursday – Europe live

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Joe Coughlan (now) and Jakub Krupa (earlier)
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Adviser to Zelenskyy says he in Kyiv, not Davos, and meeting will not be today as Trump suggested earlier

Former Nato secretary general and former Danish prime minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen warned that the time of flattery has ended" as Europe needs to step up its response to Trump's threats over Greenland - but still look for off-ramps to avoid escalation whereever possible.

Speaking to BBC News this morning, he warned that a US attack on Greenland would be the end of Nato," and push Europeans to urgently step up its defence in its own right, regardless of the US.

I think those three areas would accommodate the concerns of President Trump."

Time has come to stand up against Trump."

So I think that we should solve this problem in a diplomatic way. Of course, I appreciate Denmark's voice, ... it's our partner, but I'm looking at the Greenland as a strategic point in a [broader] geopolitical issue between the free world of democracies ... and Russia."

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