{"id":515594,"date":"2025-10-20T23:48:13","date_gmt":"2025-10-20T23:48:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/515594\/"},"modified":"2025-10-20T23:48:13","modified_gmt":"2025-10-20T23:48:13","slug":"europe-ready-to-deploy-troops-to-ukraine-if-ceasefire-secured-says-healey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/515594\/","title":{"rendered":"Europe ‘ready to deploy’ troops to Ukraine if ceasefire secured, says Healey"},"content":{"rendered":"

The announcement followed reports that a White House meeting between Trump and Zelensky ended in a “shouting match”, as US officials pushed Ukraine to give up land to Russia.<\/p>\n

Zelensky had gone to Washington to ask the US to supply sought-after Tomahawk <\/a>cruise missiles to Ukraine to strike deep into Russian territory.<\/p>\n

But reports suggest Trump had instead insisted Zelensky surrender the entire eastern Donbas region to Putin. Russia controls 70% of Donetsk and nearly all of neighbouring Luhansk.<\/p>\n

The Financial Times reported, external<\/a> Trump had warned Zelensky that Putin would “destroy” Ukraine if he did not agree to its terms, citing sources familiar with the conversation.<\/p>\n

In the more than 1,300 days since Russia invaded Ukraine, Putin has become increasingly reliant on support from North Korea, Iran and China. <\/p>\n

According to Healey, Russia has suffered over a million casualties and devoted 40% of its government spending to the military.<\/p>\n

But in recent months Moscow has intensified attacks on Ukrainian infrastructure, prompting emergency power cuts across the country.<\/p>\n

European leaders have expressed concern over Trump’s shifting stance, with Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk warning on social media that “appeasement never was a road to a just and lasting peace”. <\/p>\n

Finnish President Alexander Stubb said “the only ones who can decide on the land issue are the Ukrainians themselves”.<\/p>\n

Speaking to the BBC<\/a>, Stubb said Finland, a member of the coalition of the willing. would never recognise Crimea, or the regions of Donetsk or Luhansk, as Russian.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The announcement followed reports that a White House meeting between Trump and Zelensky ended in a “shouting match”,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":490005,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[12,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-515594","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uk","8":"category-united-kingdom","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115409171519023887","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515594","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=515594"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515594\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/490005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=515594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=515594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=515594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}