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00:00A Russian drone has struck the protective shell of a nuclear reactor at the Chernobyl

00:06power plant.

00:11Former Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmitry Kuleba says Europe must speak up and protect its

00:16interests in an exclusive interview with Euronews.

00:21Dresden holds commemorative events to mark the 80th anniversary of the Allied Forces

00:26bombing of the city in the Second World War.

00:31Nationwide protests have erupted in Belgium against the new government's economic policies.

00:40A Russian drone with a high-explosive warhead has struck the protective shell of Chernobyl's

00:45nuclear reactor, according to Ukrainian authorities.

00:51President Zelensky says the key region was attacked overnight and the drone hit the safe

00:56confinement of the destroyed fourth reactor unit of the nuclear power plant.

01:01He added, however, that although the confinement sustained significant damage, the fire was

01:06extinguished and radiation levels have not increased.

01:11Russia's invasion of Ukraine has brought repeated warnings of dangers to Ukraine's four nuclear

01:16plants, especially at the Russian-occupied Zaporizhia plant in southern Ukraine.

01:24Rafael Grossi, head of the International Atomic Energy Agency, said the strike on Chernobyl

01:30and military activity near the Zaporizhia plant have left the UN agency on high alert.

01:41The U.S. Secretary of Defense has called restoring Ukraine's pre-2014 borders unrealistic

01:47and ruled out the country's NATO membership.

01:49Former Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmitry Kuleba says Ukraine must now focus on what remains

01:54on the table.

01:55Overall, Russia is interested in three topics, land, NATO and money.

02:03Now we see that land and NATO are already gone without any fight.

02:11Of course, Ukraine will continue to insist on it, but this U.S. position has been set

02:16more than squarely.

02:19So what stays on the table is money, and that will be about sanctions, about frozen Russian

02:28assets, and the new element added to it is this raw material agreement that Trump wants

02:35to sign with Ukraine.

02:38President Zelensky doubts Europe can fill the gap if U.S. support fades.

02:43Ahead of the annual Munich security conference, Kuleba says the ball is now in Europe's court.

02:48So high expectations, but I don't think there will be anything new coming from the U.S.

02:55side.

02:56What I think could happen is whether Europe is going to speak up.

03:05But Europe has been silent so far, and it has to give its voice, it has to say what

03:13is happening, what is its view on this, because basically everything that Trump said and did

03:20so far did not only not match Ukrainian interests, but also European interests.

03:29Ukraine wants NATO membership, but instead there are suggestions of different security

03:33guarantees such as European peacekeepers.

03:36Kuleba believes that to be unrealistic.

03:39Three thousand kilometers of the front line.

03:44Three thousand kilometers.

03:46Zelensky said at least 200,000 troops are needed, and he's very humble in his assessment.

03:54That means that all the entire armed force of the entire European Union will have to

04:03go through the peacekeeping operation.

04:06Because if you deploy 200,000 to the line, it means that you need to have at least 200,000

04:13at home resting and preparing for the rotation.

04:18The cost of this mission is uncountable.

04:21I mean, you can, I cannot even count how much it is going to cost.

04:27And listen, if you have all that money that you are ready to invest in peacekeepers, it

04:33will be much cheaper to give them to Ukraine to build, to allow it to build up its own

04:41army and fight the Russians without exposing the lives of EU soldiers to the threat of

04:48being caught up in fire.

04:50Less than three weeks from the three-year mark of Russia's full-scale invasion, Donald

04:54Trump is pushing for negotiations.

04:56The terms, however, remain unclear.

05:03The German city of Dresden marked the 80th anniversary of the Allied bombing in World

05:07War II with various commemorative events.

05:10On the 13th of February 1945, Allied forces conducted a three-day aerial raid of the city,

05:16which destroyed large parts of it.

05:19Firestorms also swept through the city center, adding to the misery.

05:23As many as 25,000 people were killed in the bombing campaign, and the pain is still felt

05:27to this day.

05:28The annual event carries significant importance to not only Dresdeners, but also Germans from

05:49other cities.

05:51We are from Berlin, but we come here every year and think it is very good that so many

06:02people are here.

06:03And we must not forget what happened here.

06:09Prince Edward of the British Royal Family attended the event in representation of the

06:13King.

06:14He participated in the events and spoke of the grief still felt at the terrible destruction

06:19and loss of life.

06:21He also visited the Dresden Frauenkirche during his stay, an iconic church in the city, which

06:26was completely destroyed during the bombing.

06:29The church, which was rebuilt and opened in 2005, remained in ruins for decades, and served

06:35as a reminder of the Allies' aggression.

06:43US Vice President J.D. Vance arrived in Germany on Thursday, where he is to hold critical

06:48talks with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on the sidelines of the Munich Security

06:52Conference.

06:55Upon his arrival, he first visited the Dachau concentration camp memorial site, a powerful

07:00symbol of World War II.

07:04Together with US Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Vance and Zelensky are set to discuss

07:08President Donald Trump's intensifying push for Ukraine and Russia to begin negotiations

07:13to end the war.

07:17In addition to his talks with Zelensky, Vance is delivering an address to the conference

07:21on Friday.

07:27Serbian students from several cities are marching over the course of four days to join at a

07:3215th of February protest in the central town of Kragujevac.

07:37The demonstrations, led by university students, demand accountability and justice for the

07:43deaths of 15 people in the train station awning collapse last November.

07:48One student tells us why he is marching.

07:58Weeks-long protests forced the resignation of Serbia's Prime Minister, Milos Vucevic,

08:04and further concessions from authorities.

08:06However, students do not believe their demands have been fully met.

08:11In January, students went on an 80-kilometer march from Belgrade to the northern city of

08:16Novi Sad.

08:29U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth denied that the U.S. is betraying Ukraine, following

08:34comments that Ukraine should not join NATO and that it's up to Europe to protect itself

08:39and Ukraine from Russian aggression.

08:43Ahead of a meeting with NATO allies in Brussels on Thursday, he reiterated his call that Ukraine

08:48should prepare for a negotiated peace settlement and abandon hope to gain back all its territory

08:53from Russia.

08:54There is no betrayal there.

08:57There is a recognition that the whole world and the United States is invested and interested

09:02in peace, a negotiated peace.

09:05As President Trump has said, stopping the killing.

09:09And so that will require both sides recognizing things they don't want to.

09:14In response to the announcement from the Trump administration, NATO Chief Mark Rutte urged

09:19the group's European allies to significantly wrap up their own defense spending.

09:24We have to ramp up defense spending because we know we cannot protect ourselves four or

09:30five years from now if we don't.

09:32And also we need to ramp up defense spending because it is clear that the U.S. rightly

09:38requires us to do more here on the European side and the Canadian side of NATO.

09:43It's only fair.

09:44It's only sensible.

09:45Rutte and several other NATO allies are insisting that Ukraine and Europe must not be cut out

09:50of any peace negotiations, after Trump signaled that he would hold face-to-face talks soon

09:56with Russian President Vladimir Putin.

10:02People in Kyiv have reacted to the U.S. President Donald Trump asking Russian President Vladimir

10:08Putin to begin negotiations on ending the war in Ukraine without commitment to Ukraine's

10:14participation in the talks.

10:32He said that he will meet with Putin and it will all happen without Ukraine, that is,

10:40they will decide our fate with Putin, who, thanks to whom, in our country so many people

10:48have been lost, the best people.

10:52Well, the mood is a little bit, well, not a little bit, but quite, let's say, negative.

11:01And it's very sad about it.

11:05I'm just outraged.

11:08In short, if I were to comment on all this, I would remember my grandmother's words.

11:13A crow does not gouge out a crow's eye.

11:16It's in the third year of the war to merge, to give up Ukraine.

11:21I think it's just a huge humiliation, first of all for the great American people.

11:27I don't understand how they chose him.

11:29Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, meanwhile, said he will not accept any negotiations about

11:36Ukraine that do not include his country in the talks.

11:39European governments also demanded a seat at the table.

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