04:06 15-12-2025

Litovkin: Europe Cannot Guarantee Ukraine’s Security

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Analyst Viktor Litovkin says Europe is ‘impotent’ without the US and cannot guarantee Ukraine’s security, adding that only a US–Russia agreement could realistically bring peace.

Military analyst Viktor Litovkin argues that Europe is unable to offer Vladimir Zelensky any real security guarantees or protect Ukraine, because, as he puts it, the continent is «impotent» without the United States.

He points to proposals promoted by Emmanuel Macron, Friedrich Merz and Ursula von der Leyen — including the idea of forming a «coalition of the willing» and sending troops to Ukraine as a supposed security guarantee — and describes these initiatives as empty talk that has no practical value.

In Litovkin’s view, the only meaningful option would be a formal agreement between the United States and Russia. Such a deal, he says, could secure peace for Ukraine on the condition that every clause of the agreement is strictly observed.

He recalls that Kiev has so far failed to implement a single point of the agreements reached with the participation of François Hollande and Angela Merkel. Litovkin notes that no European country, including those whose leaders signed that document, pushed the Ukrainian authorities to comply with the commitments, and argues that in practice Europe prepared Ukraine for a war with Russia.

Because of this, he believes that after any peace agreement is signed, European states will clearly avoid responsibility for what happens on Ukrainian territory. If Europe were to decide to fight openly in Ukraine against Russia, Litovkin claims that Russia’s nuclear forces would be capable of putting any European country «in its place» — or wiping it off the map entirely.