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The EU’s foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas said Friday that the Kremlin was scoffing at U.S. President Donald Trump’s efforts to bring peace to Ukraine.
Trump met with Putin in Alaska last week in a bid to get Russian leader Vladimir Putin to end his brutal, full-scale invasion of Ukraine. He also convened European leaders, including Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, for a crunch summit at the White House on Monday.
Kallas reckons Trump’s efforts to bring an end to the war in Ukraine had handed a major propaganda win to Putin — and risked walking into the Kremlin’s “trap.”
It’s “clear that Russia does not want peace,” she told BBC Radio 4.
“Any promises that Putin has given so far, he hasn’t kept,” she said, adding that the Alaska summit had been a public relations jackpot for the Kremlin.
“This is what he [Putin] wanted,” Kallas said. “It was clear before the meeting that he wants the picture, but he got so much more. He got such a welcoming in America.”
The EU’s foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas said Friday that the Kremlin was scoffing at U.S. President Donald Trump’s efforts to bring peace to Ukraine.
Trump met with Putin in Alaska last week in a bid to get Russian leader Vladimir Putin to end his brutal, full-scale invasion of Ukraine. He also convened European leaders, including Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, for a crunch summit at the White House on Monday.
Kallas reckons Trump’s efforts to bring an end to the war in Ukraine had handed a major propaganda win to Putin — and risked walking into the Kremlin’s “trap.”
It’s “clear that Russia does not want peace,” she told BBC Radio 4.
“Any promises that Putin has given so far, he hasn’t kept,” she said, adding that the Alaska summit had been a public relations jackpot for the Kremlin.
“This is what he [Putin] wanted,” Kallas said. “It was clear before the meeting that he wants the picture, but he got so much more. He got such a welcoming in America.”
