By Ludwig Burger and Lili Bayer

BERLIN/BRUSSELS (Reuters) -Europe must “grow up” and step up its support for Ukraine after comments by U.S. President Donald Trump backing Kyiv to take back all of its territory from Russia, Germany’s Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul said on Wednesday.

Speaking to Germany’s Deutschlandfunk radio, Wadephul said Trump had realised that his own efforts had failed to persuade Russia’s Vladimir Putin to end the war in Ukraine.

Trump’s remarks on Truth Social marked an abrupt and major rhetorical shift for the U.S. leader who had previously nudged Ukraine to give up territory to end the war and had rolled out the red carpet for Putin in Alaska just last month.

But it was not immediately clear whether Trump would back up his words with a shift in U.S. policy, a

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