BRUSSELS: Russian President Vladimir Putin should sit down for peace talks on Ukraine, European Union chief Ursula von der Leyen mentioned on Thursday (Aug 28) after calls with United States chief Donald Trump and Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
Von der Leyen’s demand comes because the Kremlin continues to stall on Trump’s push to arrange direct talks between Putin and Zelenskyy to finish Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
“Simply spoke with President Zelenskyy, then President Trump, following the huge strike on Kyiv, which additionally hit our EU workplaces. Putin should come to the negotiating desk,” European Fee head von der Leyen wrote on X.
“We should safe a simply and lasting peace for Ukraine with agency and credible safety ensures that may flip the nation right into a metal porcupine,” she added.
Moscow, in the meantime, launched one in all its greatest in a single day bombardments of the battle in Ukraine, killing at the least 17 individuals in Kyiv and damaging the EU’s diplomatic mission.
As a part of the US-led peace efforts, Western powers are at the moment additionally discussing easy methods to assure Ukraine’s safety if any truce deal comes into pressure.
Trump has indicated the US may play a task backing up any European peacekeeping plan, however wouldn’t deploy American troopers to Ukraine.
Von der Leyen wrote that “Europe will absolutely play its half”, highlighting a serious new EU programme designed to assist fund arms for Ukraine.
