Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Friday that his country wants 맥스카지노�security guarantees맥스카지노� before any talks with Russia, as the Trump administration presses both countries to find a quick endgame to the three-year war.Shortly before sitting down with Vice President JD Vance for highly anticipated talks at the Munich Security Conference, Zelenskyy said he will only agree to meet in-person with Russian leader Vladimir Putin after a common plan is negotiated with U.S. President Donald Trump.The roughly 40-minute meeting between Vance and Zelenskyy produced no major announcements detailing the way out of the deadliest war in Europe since World War II. Zelenskyy made a plaintive statement about the state of play.맥스카지노�We want peace very much," Zelenskyy said. 맥스카지노�But we need real security guarantees.맥스카지노�Vance, for his part, said the Trump administration is committed to finding a lasting peace between Ukraine and Russia.맥스카지노�Fundamentally, the goal is, as President Trump outlined it, we want the war to come to a close,맥스카지노� Vance said. "We want the killings to stop. Not the kind of peace that맥스카지노�s going to have Eastern Europe in conflict just a couple of years down the road.맥스카지노�Trump upended years of steadfast U.S. support for Ukraine this week following a phone call with Putin, when he said the two leaders would likely meet soon to negotiate a peace deal. Trump later assured Zelenskyy that he, too, would have a seat at the table.맥스카지노�New sheriff in town맥스카지노�Before his meeting with Zelenskyy, Vance lectured European officials on free speech and illegal migration on the continent, warning that they risk losing public support if they don맥스카지노�t quickly change course.맥스카지노�The threat that I worry the most about vis-à-vis Europe is not Russia. It맥스카지노�s not China. It맥스카지노�s not any other external actor,맥스카지노� Vance said in an address to the Munich Security Conference. 맥스카지노�What I worry about is the threat from within 맥스카지노� the retreat of Europe from some of its most fundamental values, values shared with the United States of America.맥스카지노�He warned European officials: 맥스카지노�If you맥스카지노�re running in fear of your own voters there맥스카지노�s nothing America can do for you."The speech and Trump's push for a quick way out of Ukraine have been met with intense concern and uncertainty at the annual gathering of world leaders and national security officials.The vice president also warned the European officials against illegal migration, saying Europeans didn맥스카지노�t vote to open 맥스카지노�floodgates to millions of unvetted immigrants" and referencing an attack Thursday in Munich where the suspect is a 24-year-old Afghan who arrived in Germany as an asylum-seeker in 2016.The violence left more than 30 people injured and appears to have had an Islamic extremist motive.NATO defense spendingEarlier Friday, Vance met separately with German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier, NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte and British Foreign Secretary David Lammy. He used the engagements to reiterate the Republican administration's call for NATO members to spend more on defense.Currently, 23 of NATO맥스카지노�s 32 member nations are hitting the Western military alliance맥스카지노�s target of spending 2% of their GDP on defense.But European leaders are pushing back that the White House's characterizations of a dependent Europe doesn't play out in the data. The continent has rallied to get behind Ukraine since Putin launched the February 2022 invasion. The U.S. has poured more than $66 billion in weapons and military assistance into Ukraine, while European and other allies have sent $60 billion in weaponry to Kyiv.맥스카지노�We have put in place hard-hitting sanctions, substantially weakening Russia맥스카지노�s economy," EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said in remarks to the conference. "We have broken one taboo after another and smashed our reliance on Russian gas, making us more resilient permanently. And we are about to do more.맥스카지노�Chernobyl drone strikeHours before Vance and Zelenskyy were set to meet, a Russian drone with a high-explosive warhead hit the protective confinement shell of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in the Kyiv region, the Ukrainian president said. Radiation levels have not increased, Zelenskyy and the U.N. atomic agency said.Zelenskyy told reporters that he thinks the Chernobyl drone strike is a 맥스카지노�very clear greeting from Putin and Russian Federation to the security conference.맥스카지노�Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov on Friday denied Ukraine's claims. And Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova said the Munich organizers haven맥스카지노�t invited Russia for several years.Trump has been vague about his specific intentions for Ukraine and Russia 맥스카지노� other than suggesting that a deal will likely result in Ukraine being forced to cede territory that Russia has seized since it annexed Crimea in 2014.Ukraine's bid to join NATOTrump맥스카지노�s musings have left Europeans in a quandary, wondering how 맥스카지노� or even if 맥스카지노� they can maintain the post-WWII security that NATO afforded them or fill the gap in the billions of dollars of security assistance that the Democratic Biden administration provided to Ukraine since Russia맥스카지노�s invasion.Trump has been highly skeptical of that aid and is expected to cut or otherwise limit it as negotiations get underway.Both Trump and U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth this week undercut Ukraine맥스카지노�s hopes of becoming part of NATO, which the alliance said less than a year ago was 맥스카지노�irreversible,맥스카지노� or of getting back territory captured by Russia, which currently occupies close to 20% including Crimea.맥스카지노�I don맥스카지노�t see any way that a country in Russia맥스카지노�s position could allow ... them to join NATO,맥스카지노� Trump said Thursday. 맥스카지노�I don맥스카지노�t see that happening.맥스카지노�Zelenskyy, in his own remarks during the conference, said the United States, including the Biden administration, never saw Ukraine as a NATO member.Video below: Hegseth says Europe must step up and do more for UkrainePossible sanctions against RussiaVance, in an interview with The Wall Street Journal, said the U.S. would hit Moscow with sanctions and potentially military action if Putin won맥스카지노�t agree to a peace deal with Ukraine that guarantees Kyiv맥스카지노�s long-term independence.The warning that military options 맥스카지노�remain on the table맥스카지노� was striking language from a Trump administration that맥스카지노�s repeatedly underscored a desire to quickly end the war.Vance맥스카지노�s team later pushed back on the newspaper맥스카지노�s report, saying he 맥스카지노�didn't make any threats.맥스카지노�맥스카지노�He simply stated the fact that no one is going to take options away from President Trump as these negotiations begin," said Will Martin, Vance's communications director.European turning pointThe track Trump is taking also has rocked Europe.Increasingly alarmed that U.S. security priorities lie elsewhere, a group of European countries has been quietly working on a plan to send troops into Ukraine to help enforce any future peace settlement with Russia. Britain and France are at the forefront of the effort, though details remain scarce.French President Emmanuel Macron said he spoke with Zelenskyy on Friday evening.맥스카지노�If President Donald Trump can truly convince President Putin to stop the aggression against Ukraine, that is great news,맥스카지노� he said in a message on X. 맥스카지노�Then, it will be the Ukrainians alone who can drive the discussions for a solid and lasting peace. We will help them in this endeavor.맥스카지노�Macron added: 맥스카지노�we, Europeans, will need to strengthen our collective security and become more autonomous... A stronger and more sovereign Europe, let맥스카지노�s make it happen now.맥스카지노�___Dazio reported from Berlin. AP reporters Lolita C. Baldor and Zeke Miller in Washington, John Leicester and Sylvie Corbet in Paris, Jill Lawless in London and Illia Novikov in Kyiv, Ukraine, contributed.