UK Defence Secretary John Healey delivered a rebuttal to comments made by his US counterpart, Pete Hegseth, regarding the security of Europe and the possibility of a peace deal for Ukraine. Hegseth stated that the US could no longer guarantee European borders and ruled out Ukraine's NATO membership as part of a peace plan. Healey emphasized that Ukraine's security is a global concern and that aggression unchecked in one region can embolden regimes elsewhere. He reaffirmed the UK's commitment to supporting Ukraine and NATO, while noting that Ukraine's rightful place is within the alliance.
The Defence Secretary John Healey issued a thinly-veiled warning to his US counterpart Pete Hegseth that the security of “all nations”, not just those in Europe, is at stakeHealey’s intervention followed comments by Hegseth that the US could no longer guarantee the borders of Europe and that it had to focus on its own security instead, particularly in the Indo-Pacific, where it faces the threat of China.
Keir Starmer and Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky in Kyiv, when they signed a ‘landmark’ 100-year agreement that pledges strengthening defence ties He said European nations would have to provide the “overwhelming share” of aid to Kyiv, adding: “We want, like you, a sovereign and prosperous Ukraine.
“That’s why the UDCG is an international coalition that stretches beyond Europe through to the Indo-Pacific to South America and to the Middle East.
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