EU Warns US Against Forcing Deal on Ukraine Before Moscow Talks

The European Union’s top diplomat expressed concern that US attempts to push Ukraine into a lopsided peace plan would only encourage Russia’s warmongering as Kyiv’s allies brace themselves for a week of talks to end Moscow’s invasion.

“I’m afraid all the pressure will be put on the weaker side because that is the easier way to stop this war when Ukraine surrenders,” Kaja Kallas, the EU’s high representative for foreign affairs, told reporters in Brussels on Monday. “But this is not in anybody’s interest.”

Kaja Kallas

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Her remarks, made following an EU defense ministers’ meeting, come as a US delegation ...