{"id":70956,"date":"2025-04-11T17:19:09","date_gmt":"2025-04-11T08:19:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2025\/apr\/11\/europe-ukraine-summit-brussels-pete-hegseth-trump-tariffs-live-updates-news"},"modified":"2025-04-11T23:17:11","modified_gmt":"2025-04-11T14:17:11","slug":"ukraine-allies-hold-brussels-summit-with-uss-hegseth-joining-via-videolink-europe-live","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=70956","title":{"rendered":"Russian media report Trump\u2019s envoy Steve Witkoff will meet Putin for Ukraine talks \u2013 as it happened"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This blog is now closed, you can read the latest in our Ukraine coverage <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/apr\/11\/ukraine-allies-promise-21bn-military-support-kyiv\">here<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ukrainian defence minister <strong>Rustem Umerov<\/strong> has offered an update on talks and commitments made in Brussels, as he posted about Germany\u2019s declaration it would offer \u20ac11bn in further military help to Ukraine up to 2029.<\/p>\n<p>He said:<\/p>\n<p><em>The deliveries from in 2025 will help us defend our skies (IRIS-T systems with missiles, PATRIOT missiles) and strengthen our positions on the battlefield (Marders, Leopards, artillery systems). Thank you, Germany, for standing by our side. Together, we will ensure a just and lasting peace in Europe.<\/em><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2025\/apr\/11\/europe-ukraine-summit-brussels-pete-hegseth-trump-tariffs-live-updates-news\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This blog is now closed, you can read the latest in our Ukraine coverage hereUkrainian defence minister Rustem Umerov has offered an update on talks and commitments made in Brussels, as he posted about Germany\u2019s declaration it would offer \u20ac11bn in furt&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4686,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6,50,415,221,530,3288,3277,746,3280,3279,930,47,42,49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70956","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-china","category-donald-trump","category-europe","category-european-union","category-pedro-sanchez","category-pete-hegseth","category-spain","category-tariffs","category-trump-tariffs","category-ukraine","category-us-news","category-world-news","category-xi-jinping"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70956","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4686"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=70956"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70956\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70985,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70956\/revisions\/70985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=70956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=70956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=70956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}