Russian lawmaker: Munich fireworks show EU is out of touch and facing crisis


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  • Sunday, 16 Feb 2025

FILE PHOTO: Russia's State Duma Speaker Vyacheslav Volodin is seen before the Victory Day Parade in Red Square in Moscow, Russia June 24, 2020. REUTERS/Maxim Shemetov/File Photo

MOSCOW (Reuters) - A speaker of the Russian parliament said on Sunday that the events at the Munich Security Conference showed that the European Union was incompetent, did not understand what was happening in the world and faced crisis.

The United States shocked European leaders by saying that Ukraine's place was not in NATO, that a return to Ukraine's pre-2014 borders was unrealistic and that Europe would not be at the table of peace negotiations with Russia and Ukraine.

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