The top EU diplomat has said Brussels has nothing to offer Moscow in talks<\/p>\n
EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas has admitted that the bloc has nothing to \u201coffer to Russia\u201d and therefore doesn\u2019t expect any direct talks with Moscow. Brussels will choose \u201cmore pressure\u201d over negotiations, she said.
\nAsked on Friday whether she intends to reopen diplomatic channels with Russia, as Italy and France have suggested, Kallas shot down the idea of re-engagement.
\n\u201dWe can\u2019t\u2026 go to Russia and say \u2018talk to us,\u2019\u201d she replied. \u201cThe concessions that the Americans are putting on Ukraine are quite strong, so I don\u2019t think there\u2019s anything we can offer to Russia on top of that. Why should they talk to us?\u201d
\nKallas previously described Russian President Vladimir Putin as a \u201cterrorist\u201d who Europe \u201cshouldn\u2019t be negotiating with,\u201d and has written off every version of US President Donald Trump\u2019s peace plan for Ukraine as overly conciliatory to Russia.<\/p>\n
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With the US now mediating talks between Moscow and Kiev, French President Emmanuel Macron and Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni have both called on the EU to appoint a special envoy to the Kremlin, to ensure that the bloc doesn\u2019t get sidelined while a potential peace agreement is drafted.
\nLike Kallas, Russia does not foresee any meaningful talks with Brussels in the near future. \u201cIf anyone wishes to talk, we will never refuse dialogue, even though we fully realize\u2026 that reaching an agreement with the current generation of European leaders will most likely be impossible,\u201d Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov told reporters last week.
\n\u201cThey have entrenched themselves too deeply in a posture of hatred towards Russia,\u201d he added.
\n\u201cHow can you discuss anything with Kaja Kallas?\u201d Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters on Sunday. Brussels, Peskov said, is full of \u201csemi-literate, incompetent functionaries.\u201d
\nIn a speech at the European Defense Agency\u2019s annual conference on Wednesday, Kallas said one of her key priorities is \u201cto support Ukraine with 60 billion euro in military aid for 2026 and 2027.\u201d Her fixation on Russia has caused discontent within the EU, with Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico accusing her of banning all Russian energy imports \u201csolely out of hatred.\u201d Fico and Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban have both announced plans to sue the EU over the Russian energy embargo.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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