The EU says Russia has "no intention" of ending the war in Ukraine "soon."

The European Union's High Representative for Foreign Policy, Kaja Kallas, has positively assessed the summit held this Friday in Alaska between the US and Russian leaders, Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin, although she asserted that the Russian president will not end the war in Ukraine "anytime soon."
"The harsh reality is that Russia has no intention of ending this war anytime soon . Even as the delegations were meeting, Russia launched new attacks against Ukraine. Putin continues to drag out the negotiations and hopes to get his way. He left Anchorage without committing to ending the killing," the European Union's top diplomat said.
In this regard, Kallas urged the Trump administration to "force Russia to negotiate seriously," asserting that the United States has the "power" to achieve this. "The EU will work with Ukraine and the US to prevent Russian aggression from succeeding and to ensure that peace is sustainable," the Estonian politician maintained.
European Union leaders coordinated with President Trump ahead of the bilateral meeting in Alaska, according to Kallas, a meeting that ended without any major announcements regarding Ukraine, although several media outlets reported that Putin had made the withdrawal of Ukrainian forces from the Donbas region, which includes the Donetsk and Luhansk provinces, a condition for future peace.
The High Representative reiterated the EU's support for Ukraine and indicated that they are working on a new sanctions package against Russia. "Moscow will not end the war until it realizes it cannot continue ," she stated.
Nor does he contemplate changes to European security after Trump and Putin advocated for security measures for Ukraine outside NATO during the Alaska meeting. Kallas defined the war as a consequence of "Russia's imperialist foreign policy" and not of an "imaginary imbalance in the European security architecture."
Several European leaders—including Macron, Merz, and Starmer—stressed their "unwavering solidarity" with Ukraine on Saturday and offered their support for organizing a three-way meeting that would also include Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.
Zelensky doesn't see peace close either.
For his part, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has asserted that peace negotiations will become more complicated if Russia does not stop carrying out attacks on Ukrainian territory, statements made after the Alaska summit and ahead of the Ukrainian leader's impending visit to Washington this Monday.
"We see that Russia is rejecting numerous calls for a ceasefire and has not yet decided when the killings will stop. This complicates the situation," Zelensky said in a message from his personal account on the social network X.
For the Ukrainian leader, the fact that Russian President Vladimir Putin is not issuing a "simple order" to end the attacks "may" mean that a "great effort" will be necessary for Russia to implement "peaceful coexistence" with its neighbors in the future.
Nevertheless, he has maintained his commitment to reaching a peace agreement and working for Ukraine's security. "Stopping the killings is a key element in stopping the war," he stated in the statement.
With his eyes on his meeting with President Trump this Monday, Zelensky reported that he has been speaking with his partners throughout the day to unify coordination in the negotiations , talks that will continue through Sunday.
"We are preparing for Monday's meeting with President Trump, and I appreciate the invitation. It's important that everyone agrees that a leadership-level dialogue is necessary to clarify all the details and determine what steps are necessary and effective," the Ukrainian politician asserted.
Likewise, this Sunday, several European leaders called for a new meeting of the so-called Coalition of the Willing , which brings together some thirty countries allied with Ukraine. The meeting will once again be held online, as was the case last Wednesday, and will discuss Friday's summit in Alaska and the upcoming meeting in Washington.
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