US Vice-President JD Vance criticised European leaders over
free speech and democracy at the Munich Security Conference, telling world leaders “there is a new sheriff in town”, referring to US President Donald Trump.

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.