Russian invasion The world's response

Trump's advisor: It would be wise to accept the mineral deal

The US deserves compensation for all the billions in aid to Ukraine and it would be "very wise" for Volodymyr Zelenskyj to accept Trump's proposed mineral deal. This is what US national security adviser Mike Waltz tells Fox News.

Zelenskyj yesterday dismissed the proposal, saying it lacks security guarantees.

- I can't think of any better security guarantees than being co-invested with President Trump, Waltz tells Fox.

The proposal gives the US access to the country's rare earth metals but contains no guarantees that Ukraine will be allowed to participate in the peace talks, sources tell Bloomberg.

The US is demanding the rights to 50 percent of Ukraine's rare earth metals, the FT has previously reported.

 

NATO and EU representatives to attend crisis meeting tomorrow

NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte and EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen will be present during Monday's crisis meeting on Ukraine and the US in France. This is stated by President Macron's staff according to Reuters.

In addition, the leaders of Britain, Germany, Italy, Poland, Spain, the Netherlands and Denmark will be present, according to the statement.

Denmark will represent all the Nordic and Baltic countries in its capacity as chairman of the NB8, the countries' security policy cooperation, writes Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson's deputy press secretary Hanna Strömberg to Omni.

Expert: The next wake-up call for the EU could be a bomb alarm

The most important question Europe is now asking itself is whether it can trust the US or not. This is what security expert and former German defense politician Nico Lange tells the Wall Street Journal.

The statement comes after this weekend's security conference in Munich, where the US announced that Europe is being removed from the peace talks with Russia.

According to Nico Lange, the situation is serious.

- After ten years of alarm clocks, perhaps the next alarm for Europeans will be the siren warning of air raids, he tells the newspaper.

Zelenskyj visits the United Arab Emirates

Ukrainian President Zelenskyj has landed in the United Arab Emirates with his wife Olena, he writes on social media.

"The priorities are to release more of our people from captivity. In addition, investments and economic partnership."

The United Arab Emirates has previously brokered several prisoner exchanges between Russia and Ukraine.

Zelenskyj also plans to visit Saudi Arabia and Turkey in the coming days. So far, however, there are no signs that Ukraine has been invited to participate in the negotiations that the US and Russia are to hold in Saudi Arabia.

Information:: NATO thinks Ukraine is wasting expensive weapons

NATO has come to blows with Ukraine over combat techniques, British security sources tell The Sunday Telegraph.

According to the sources, expensive precision weapons are being used, such as the NLAW anti-tank missile – with a price tag of the equivalent of 270,000 kronor, according to old-fashioned Soviet techniques.

A British soldier who has trained Ukrainian soldiers says that the Ukrainian army has pledged to show videos on the correct use of the weapons, but that the clips show them firing five or six NLAWs at the Russians at the same time, instead of targeted precision attacks.

Russia produces cheap weapons for mass attacks on a larger scale than NATO can match. NATO instead produces smaller quantities of high-tech weapons, intended for use in more precise, mixed combat techniques.