Donald Trump’s Vice President JD Vance is the key guest at the first day of the Munich Security Conference, but seems to be contradicting the president on key parts of his Ukraine peace talks with Vladimir Putin. The Times’ Defence Editor Larisa Brown is in Munich, and explains how Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelensky and Europe as a whole are navigating the confusion.

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Trump’s Ukraine plans cause chaos in Munich