EU leaders hold emergency talks on military assistance to Ukraine

EUROPEAN Union leaders are holding emergency talks on Thursday on ways to quickly increase their military budgets after the Trump administration signaled that Europe must take care of its own security and also suspended assistance to Ukraine.

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Part of the security plan is also to protect the increasingly beleaguered position of Ukraine. Early Thursday morning, EU envoys finished drafting a summit statement for the leaders to endorse. The text, seen by Associated Press, insists there can be no negotiations on Ukraine without Ukraine and that the Europeans must be involved in any talks involving their security.