“It is crunch time for Europe and Ukraine,” Denmark’s foreign minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen said on Monday morning. Russian president Vladimir Putin has shown little sign of compromise. European leaders fear Washington will put pressure on Ukraine to sign a peace deal that overly favours Moscow. Hence the insistence from Zelenskiy that Ukraine will need solid guarantees the US will lend the threat of its military might to ward off such a scenario. They are not expected to leave until a decision has been taken on how to fund a large package of financial support for Ukraine.

Source: The Irish Times December 15, 2025 15:07 UTC