Former EU military staff: Europe must back Ukraine

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Europe’s support for Ukraine is crucial to show Putin the boundaries he cannot cross, the former director general of European Union military staff Lieutenant General David Leakey says.   #Putin #Ukraine

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00:00Turning to your other point about the Europeans, the Europeans are backing President Zelensky.

00:09They're continuing with their rhetoric saying that they will support President Zelensky in Ukraine

00:16both militarily and with other support, financial aid and so on. And they have to do that, because

00:22if they say, well, we're not going to support Ukraine, and if the US says we are not going

00:28to support Ukraine in the future, then you're leaving the door wide open for President Putin

00:34to say, well, I'll wait until we got a ceasefire and everybody's calmed down, and then I'll just

00:38walk in and take the rest of Ukraine and finish the job. Somebody has got to tell President Ukraine

00:44and the Europeans are doing this, that he does not have a free license to go and invade

00:50a sovereign country.

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