Russian invasion The world's response

Expert: Ukraine may be able to make it through midsummer

No, NATO will not collapse as a result of the conflict between Donald Trump and Volodymyr Zelenskyj, says Lieutenant Colonel Johan Huovinen to DN. The US is too dependent on cooperation.

However, the outlook for Ukraine looks bleaker. According to Huovinen, Ukraine will be able to make it through midsummer with the military resources it currently has. The country's only chance is for Europe to step up its support now, he says.

- NATO's Secretary General has already said that all countries must contribute at least 5 percent of their respective GDP to defense and that's where we have to go. At least.

The question on many lips is what happens between the US and Ukraine now. Katarina Engberg, senior advisor at Sieps, tells SVT Nyheter that it will take a few days to see which direction it all takes. Mike Winnerstig, a security analyst at FOI, believes that the big fight is destroying Trump's plans to appear as a peace broker.

- It will be difficult for him to do anything with Russia without it looking like a complete capitulation to Putin unless Ukraine is on board. 

Hungary's demand: Start direct negotiations with Russia

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán is demanding that the EU start "direct discussions with Russia on a ceasefire". The demand is made in a letter to European Council President António Costa sent on Saturday and seen by the Financial Times.

Orbán, who is often described as Vladimir Putin's closest ally in the EU, says he is opposed to attempts to create consensus within the union.

"It has become clear that there are strategic differences in our views on Ukraine that cannot be bridged through wording or communication," Orbán writes in the letter.

Hungary's EU ambassador made the same demand in Brussels on Friday, sources told the newspaper.

Republicans split over the fight: "Bad day for the US"

The fight in the White House is splitting the Republican Party, writes The Hill. While Senator Lindsey Graham questions whether the US should even do business with Ukraine, House of Representatives member Don Bacon describes Friday as a "bad day for American foreign policy".

Ukraine wants independence and a free market – and to be part of the West, Bacon writes to the political website. Russia, on the other hand, “hates us and our Western values,” he continues.

“We should be clear in our support for freedom.”

Graham’s stance instead is that the Ukrainian president must either resign or send someone else to negotiate with the US.

I have never been so proud of Trump, Graham said after the meeting between Donald Trump and Volodymyr Zelenskyj.