Ukrainian MP Oleksiy Honcharenko, who is currently at the conference, says the only thing that can be said about Vance's speech is "the total humiliation of all European leaders". "People in the room are shocked," he says in a post on X.

Vice President JD Vance delivered a blistering speech at the Munich Security Conference on Friday, warning European leaders that internal threats to democracy—such as censorship, election cancellations,

German Defence Minister Boris Pistorius hit back on Friday at the stinging criticism of European democracy delivered by US Vice President JD Vance at the Munich Security Conference. "This democracy was called into question by the US vice president for the whole of Europe earlier,