Return to Ukraine boundaries before 2014 “unrealistic”

The new US defense minister Pete Hegseth has rejected the central demands of Ukraine to a US mediated peace with Russia.

One return to the Limits of Ukraine before 2014 – Before annexation of the Crimean Peninsula by Russia – be “unrealistic”Hegseth said on Wednesday before his meeting with the Ukraine contact group in Brussels. A NATO membership of Ukraine is also not a “realistic result of a negotiating solution” from a US perspective.

US government wants a sovereign Ukraine

Hegseth made it clear that the Russian War of attack Against Ukraine end must. president Donald Trump intend to bring about this with diplomatic means, said the Minister of Defense. The US government wants one sovereign Ukraine. The country needs security guarantees, especially through the presence of European troops after the end of the war. Hegseth emphasized: The United States would not send soldiers to Ukraine.

Hegseth: NATO has to “become stronger, more fatal strength”

Hegseth previously asked NATO one Change of course. “NATO has to be one Stronger, more fatal force his – not a diplomatic club, “he wrote on Wednesday in the online service X. He published a photo of his arrival in Brussels headquarters. NATO sees itself as a purely” defensive alliance “. The new pentagon boss is in Brussels.

On Thursday, Hegseth will come together with the counterparts of the other 31 NATO countries. The program also includes a NATO-UKRAINE council with the Ukrainian Minister of Defense Rust Umerov.

USA wants to “put on a military presence worldwide”

Yesterday Tuesday Hegseth had US military base points in Visited Germany. There he announced that he wanted to speak “plain text” with the NATO allies. Trump is “right”If he demands defense investments of five percent of the gross domestic product (GDP) from the Europeans, said the new Pentagon boss in Stuttgart. Europe has to contribute the most to defend its neighborhood, he said with a view to Ukraine.

Fears of deducting the Around 100,000 US forces Hegseth played down from Europe. “There are currently no plans to shorten anything,” he emphasized. However, the United States wanted its Military presence “worldwide put to the test“In order to be able to concentrate more on China’s ambitions in the Indopazacifik.