Vice President JD Vance is appearing at the Munich Security Conference amid intense concern and uncertainty over the Trump administration’s foreign policy. He’s meeting Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy later Friday for talks on how to negotiate a settlement to the Russia-Ukraine conflict.

If Russian President Vladimir Putin decides to attack Europe, he will be able to occupy it. European countries do not have enough soldiers to deter Russia, states President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in an interview with The Economist.

Several NATO allies stressed on Thursday that Ukraine and Europe must not be cut out of any peace negotiations as U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth denied that the United States is betraying the war-ravaged country.