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A meeting of Ukraine’s western European backers, known as the ‘coalition of the willing’, at the Elysee Palace in Paris on Thursday has brought together European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, Vladimir Zelensky, and the leaders of Belgium, Poland, Finland and France.

Kiev has been pressing the West to provide security guarantees that could serve as a substitute for NATO’s collective defense since the US effectively blocked Ukraine’s bid to join the bloc.

Several European nations, including France and the UK, have voiced their readiness to deploy peacekeepers to Ukraine, while Germany recently said it has no such plans. Trump has ruled out sending US troops.

Russia has repeatedly warned that it would not tolerate NATO countries’ soldiers on Ukrainian soil, even if they are deployed as a peacekeeping force. President Vladimir Putin has specified that in order for a ceasefire to be achieved, Western military aid to Kiev must end.

  • 04 September 2025

    16:20 GMT

    The No camp 

    Germany has ruled out sending troops, with officials stressing that Berlin will instead contribute by offering other elements of security guarantees. 

    Hungary has flatly rejected any troop deployment or military support, while Poland has said its forces will not be sent to Ukraine, focusing instead on NATO’s eastern flank and logistical aid. 

    Italy has also confirmed it does not plan to send troops, and both the Netherlands and Spain have limited their role to supporting Ukraine’s security guarantees without committing personnel.

    The Maybe camp

    Latvian President Edgars Rinkevics has said the choice will depend on broader security guarantees and may only come after a peace deal. 

    Sweden also remains undecided, awaiting clarity on whether the mission would function as peacekeeping, deterrence, or reassurance.

    The Yes camp 

    France and the UK, co-chairs of the ‘coalition of the willing’, are committed to sending personnel. 

    London has floated a mission focused on training, air and sea defense, with the head of the UK’s armed forces expected to reinforce this message in Washington. 

    Belgium, Lithuania and Estonia have signaled a readiness to participate.

  • 15:58 GMT

    On his Telegram channel, Zelensky said the talks focused on “new sanctions and also secondary sanctions,” as well as special tariffs to pressure Russia’s economy. Zelensky emphasized that a “strong Ukrainian army” will remain central to security guarantees, noting that 26 countries have agreed to provide such commitments, with the US pledging long-term support.

  • 15:23 GMT

    Finland’s President Alexander Stubb said that in a call with European leaders on Thursday, US President Donald Trump urged the US and its European allies to coordinate closely on new sanctions against Russia, including possible measures on oil and gas. 

    Stubb told Finnish media, according to Reuters, that Trump’s message was clear — “we must act together on sanctions policy.” He added that the focus now is on “two targets, namely oil and gas,” with EC President Ursula von der Leyen and Trump’s advisers set to continue talks within the next 24 hours.

  • 14:37 GMT

    Zelensky stated that a framework for security guarantees has been agreed upon, involving “concrete steps” where leaders are assigning specific support areas like cyber and air defense to individual countries. He also called for greater investment in European defense, arguing that “European weapon production lines are not working enough.”

READ MORE:

https://www.rt.com/russia/624112-zelensky-europe-trump-talks/

 

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         Gus Leonisky

         POLITICAL CARTOONIST SINCE 1951.

 

MEANWHILE, ZELENSKAKA WANTS WW3:

Vladimir Zelensky’s “dream” is to draw NATO directly into the conflict with Russia on Ukraine’s behalf, former Polish President Andrzej Duda said Tuesday.

Speaking in an interview with journalist Bogdan Rymanowski, Duda recalled an incident in November 2022, when a Ukrainian air defense missile struck near a Polish border village, killing one person. Zelensky immediately blamed Russia and urged Warsaw to invoke NATO’s collective defense clause.

Duda said the Ukrainian leader pressured him to publicly declare the weapon Russian in origin, which he refused to do.

“From the very beginning, they’ve been trying to drag everyone into the war. That’s obvious,” Duda said. “Any leader of a nation in a situation like Ukraine’s would want the entirety of NATO to fight on its side.”

“Having NATO support for the army, NATO tanks and soldiers fighting side by side against Russia – that’s a dream [in such circumstances],” he added, stressing that “Poland, being a NATO state, could never have agreed to that.”

Poland has been one of Kiev’s staunchest backers, providing both arms and diplomatic support. Moscow has claimed that Polish nationals make up a significant portion of foreign mercenaries fighting in Ukraine’s military ranks.

The relationship between Warsaw and Kiev has also seen disputes. In 2023, several eastern European states, including Poland, banned EU-facilitated Ukrainian grain imports, citing market disruptions. Tensions have also repeatedly flared over Kiev’s veneration of nationalist figures responsible for the mass killing of Poles during the Second World War.

Moscow has long described the Ukraine conflict as a NATO proxy war against Russia, warning that European members of the US-led bloc risk direct confrontation by fueling the hostilities. 

Prior to the escalation in 2022, Russia sought a legally-binding pledge that NATO would freeze its expansion eastward, a proposal that was rejected.....

https://www.rt.com/news/624105-duda-zelensky-nato-war/ 

 

BS news....

There is no evidence Russia interfered with European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen’s airplane during her recent flight to Bulgaria, the country’s authorities have said. The European Commission earlier claimed Bulgarian authorities had confirmed the incident.

On Sunday, upon landing in Plovdiv on a PR exercise to visit “Europe's frontline states,” von der Leyen’s pilots allegedly reported issues with their navigation systems. Brussels later told the Financial Times that her flight was “forced to circle for an hour” and claimed that Moscow had “blatantly interfered” with the aircraft, supposedly trying to jam its GPS signal.

NATO chief Mark Rutte claimed “we are all on the eastern flank now, whether you live in London or Tallinn. ”

However, Bulgarian Prime Minister Rosen Zhelyazkov has outright contradicted Brussels’ claim, telling parliament on Thursday that no evidence of a Russian attack had been found and that von der Leyen’s plane did not suffer any serious issues, only short-term signal degradation which is common in densely populated areas.

https://www.rt.com/news/624127-bulgaria-debunks-eu-jet-claim/

 

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A flurry of reports from EU officials and Western media claimed this week that Russia jammed the plane carrying European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen into Bulgaria. The tale of “hybrid warfare”in the skies made front-page news across an unquestioning mainstream press. But flight-tracking data shows something very different to what has been widely reported.

 

What Brussels claimed happened

On Sunday, von der Leyen traveled to Plovdiv as part of an Eastern Europe tour designed to harden Western backing for Kiev. Together with Bulgarian Prime Minister Rosen Zhelyazkov, she visited the VMZ arms plant in Sopot and praised Sofia as a critical supplier of weapons to Ukraine.

 

Yet the headlines were less about the factory floor than the flight path. Upon landing Brussels sources told the Financial Times that Russia had “blatantly interfered”with the Commission President’s aircraft, knocking out its GPS navigation system on approach. According to those accounts, the plane was forced to circle for an hour and the pilots had to fall back on paper charts before landing in Plovdiv.

How the scare took off
Once seeded, the story raced through the Western press: The Financial Times carried the initial claims of “blatant Russian interference,” Politico described a “GPS scare gripping Europe,” The Guardian tied the episode into a string of alleged Russian plots. NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte declared the alliance was working “day and night” to counter jamming and spoofing. Italy floated the idea of hiding the routes of official flights altogether.

 

The narrative slotted neatly into von der Leyen’s larger mission: selling a new round of defense spending as protection from a threatening Russia.

Does data back the drama?
No. FlightRadar24, the go-to service Western journalists themselves usually rely on for in-flight information on Monday quietly brought the claims flying out of Brussels back down to Earth.


• Its data showed “good GPS signal quality from take-off to landing.”


• The aircraft touched down nine minutes late, not an hour.


When activists online tried to poke holes, FR24 doubled down with a second statement: the telemetry is clear, no signal loss, no blackout.


Furthermore, the flight path published by FR24 shows a standard figure of either approach and landing, no circling.


In other words: no evidence of Russian jamming, no missing hour, no emergency fallback to paper maps.

 

Official walk-backs, muted corrections

Zhelyazkov on Tuesday told the Bulgarian parliament that there had been no attempts to jam the GPS signal and that any break was consistent with flying over heavily populated areas. “After checking the plane's records, we saw that there was no indication of concern from the pilot. Five minutes the aircraft hovered in the waiting area, with the quality of the signal being good all the time,” he told lawmakers.


The European Commission itself quietly denied there had been any “targeted actions” against von der Leyen’s plane.

 

Despite that, the original “Russian plot” framing still stands, uncorrected, in most coverage.

Moscow cries foul
Moscow was quick to seize on the contradiction. Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova called the reports “preposterous” and part of a Western “web of lies.” The point, she argued, was not aviation safety but distraction – keeping Europeans focused on an external enemy while their economies strain under sanctions and defense bills.

Bottom line
The EU got its headline about Russian interference. But von der Leyen’s jet didn’t circle for an hour, didn’t lose GPS, and didn’t need paper maps. FlightRadar24’s data doesn’t match the drama.

 

https://www.rt.com/news/624110-ursula-jet-jamming-explained/

 

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YOURDEMOCRACY.NET RECORDS HISTORY AS IT SHOULD BE — NOT AS THE WESTERN MEDIA WRONGLY REPORTS IT.

 

         Gus Leonisky

         POLITICAL CARTOONIST SINCE 1951.