Boris Johnson says there is "no way" a solution to the Russia-Ukraine war can be found without Ukrainian input, but has accused Europe of "headless chicken-ism" over Donald Trump's plans for bringing the war to an end. The former prime minister adds the US "is continuing to fund the Ukrainian effort", despite fears over how the US President will try to bring about peace. Report by Brooksl. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
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00:00Of course the Ukrainians are going to be involved.
00:03There's no way that you can have any kind of solution without involving the Ukrainians.
00:07And there must not be a solution that doesn't involve the Ukrainians.
00:10What I would say about what's happening today, right here in Munich,
00:14is there's a little bit too much of the sort of headless chickenism from the Europeans
00:21about exactly what the Trump administration is saying it's going to do.
00:25And I have to say that, you know, if you look at what they're actually saying,
00:29they're continuing to back Ukraine.
00:31Trump said in the Oval Office at the White House he wants Putin to give back land that he's taken.
00:36Their vision for Ukraine, as Pete Hegseth said,
00:40that a U.S. Defense Secretary is for a sovereign, independent, prosperous Ukraine, right?
00:46Those are very good things.
00:48And they are continuing. A bubble.
00:50The United States is continuing to fund the Ukrainian effort.
00:56Now, people are worried about what Pete Hegseth and the President have said about NATO.
01:05And clearly, you can't have a sovereign country that isn't able to take decisions about its own future.
01:15If Ukraine is to be a sovereign country, as Pete Hegseth says it is, and he's quite right,
01:21then it cannot be constrained in that way.
01:24And at some stage down the line, it's part of the Ukrainian constitution, NATO.
01:29NATO is committed to getting Ukraine into the North Atlantic Alliance.