.png)
2 days ago
21
EU's Kallas accuses Russia of 'playing games,' hints astatine EU-UK defence woody adjacent week
And the EU’s overseas argumentation main Kaja Kallas is speaking now, and she’s striking a precise akin tone, pointedly referring to implicit 100 Russian drones reportedly targeting Ukraine overnight.
“We person to enactment unit connected Russia to truly privation bid and to beryllium down and to speech with Ukraine,” she says, accusing Moscow of “playing games.”
“If they are, if they are continuing bombing Ukraine each the time, if there’s nary ceasefire, there can’t beryllium talks nether fire,” she tells reporters.
She besides sounds affirmative connected the imaginable of a caller EU-UK defence and information practice deal, which could beryllium signed astatine the archetypal post-Brexit acme adjacent week.
She says the narration is “very important successful this precise turbulent time,” and that she hopes “we get this statement signed” astatine the summit.
Asked astir circumstantial areas it could cover, she points to cybersecurity, situation effect and cooperation, and “different topics wherever we already speech information, intelligence-sharing, and each these facts that marque america some stronger.”
Key events Show cardinal events only Please crook connected JavaScript to usage this feature
West needs to unit Putin to marque him wantonness his goals successful Ukraine, Poland's Sikorski says, arsenic helium closes Russian consultate aft arson claims
Poland’s overseas curate Radosław Sikorski is up now.
In his opening statement, helium says “we anticipation that parties volition find a mode to cease occurrence and to person productive, existent negotiations astir ending this warfare and bringing backmost respect for planetary law.”
But helium past goes further.
In Polish, helium adds that the corporate West needs to support exerting unit connected Putin to “abandon his goals successful Ukraine.”
He aboriginal adds successful English:
“If helium [Putin] yet again rejects it [ceasefire], past the logical decision is that unit should beryllium brought to carnivore not connected the unfortunate of aggression, but connected the perpetrator of aggression, until helium feels the symptom and becomes much reasonable.”
Sikorski besides mentions the Polish government’s determination to retreat its authorisation for the Russian consulate successful Kraków, forcing it to close.
The determination comes aft a government-led enquiry into last year’s occurrence that destroyed a ample buying centre successful Warsaw. Poland’s premier curate Donald Tusk confirmed yesterday the occurrence was “caused by arson ordered by the Russian peculiar services.”
“This is wholly unacceptable, truthful the Russian consultate volition person to leave. They volition person 1 more, and if these attacks continue, we volition instrumentality further action,” Sikorski says.
Responding to the decision, Russia’s overseas ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova said that “an capable effect to these inadequate steps volition travel shortly.”
EU's Kallas accuses Russia of 'playing games,' hints astatine EU-UK defence woody adjacent week
And the EU’s overseas argumentation main Kaja Kallas is speaking now, and she’s striking a precise akin tone, pointedly referring to implicit 100 Russian drones reportedly targeting Ukraine overnight.
“We person to enactment unit connected Russia to truly privation bid and to beryllium down and to speech with Ukraine,” she says, accusing Moscow of “playing games.”
“If they are, if they are continuing bombing Ukraine each the time, if there’s nary ceasefire, there can’t beryllium talks nether fire,” she tells reporters.
She besides sounds affirmative connected the imaginable of a caller EU-UK defence and information practice deal, which could beryllium signed astatine the archetypal post-Brexit acme adjacent week.
She says the narration is “very important successful this precise turbulent time,” and that she hopes “we get this statement signed” astatine the summit.
Asked astir circumstantial areas it could cover, she points to cybersecurity, situation effect and cooperation, and “different topics wherever we already speech information, intelligence-sharing, and each these facts that marque america some stronger.”
France's Barrot calls for 'peace and negotiations,' says Russia could look 'massive sanctions' if it doesn't engage
French overseas curate Jean-Noël Barrot said France’s presumption was “very clear: we privation peace, we privation negotiations,” arsenic helium said “an unconditional truce successful air, sea, crushed for 30 days” was needed to unblock the talks.
“President Zelensky has shown clip and clip again, that helium is unfastened to dialog that helium wants diplomacy that helium wants peace. … Meanwhile, Putin’s lone effect has been much bombing,” helium said.
Barrot said that during the meeting, France volition repetition its telephone “for diplomacy … and for monolithic sanctions if Russia erstwhile again refuses to prosecute earnestly successful diplomacy and continues its aggression … connected the Ukrainian people.”
Germany 'expects Russia to hold to ceasefire,' caller German overseas curate says
Arriving astatine the aforesaid conference, Germany’s caller overseas curate Johann Wadephul said that Berlin “expects Russia to hold to a ceasefire and past beryllium prepared to negotiate.”
Should talks fail, Germany was acceptable to connection further arms packages for Ukraine, Reuters reported.
Wadephul besides warned Russia astir imaginable further consequences, including tighter sanctions against Moscow.
Putin indispensable 'get serious' astir bid talks, Britain's Lammy says
Speaking up of that gathering successful London, Britain’s overseas caput David Lammy said Russian president Vladimir Putin indispensable “get serious” astir engaging successful bid talks, PA reported.
Lammy commended Ukraine’s president Volodymyr Zelenskyy for his “willingness to prosecute successful talks,” and said “this is the clip for Vladimir Putin to get superior astir bid successful Europe, to get superior astir a ceasefire, and to get superior astir talks.”
He besides repeated the existent enactment that European leaders are “prepared if this is not the infinitesimal of seriousness from Putin,” PA said.
Morning opening: The ceasefire that wasn't
Jakub Krupa
Despite the renewed connection of an contiguous ceasefire, Ukraine said Russia had fired implicit a 100 drones overnight, hitting residential buildings successful the Odesa region, among others.
In the meantime, we await a ceremonial confirmation astir imaginable nonstop gathering involving Ukraine and Russia successful Turkey aboriginal this week, aft US president Donald Trump and aboriginal Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy urged Russia’s Vladimir Putin to be high-level talks.
Zelenskyy and Putin person not communicated straight since Russia launched its full-scale penetration of Ukraine, and determination person been nary publically known talks betwixt Moscow and Kyiv since March 2022, soon aft the warfare began.
Trump said successful a connection connected his Truth Social level that the 2 sides should “HAVE THE MEETING, NOW!!!”.
Meanwhile, Ukraine’s European allies support raising unit connected Russia.
After the leaders’ sojourn successful Kyiv implicit the weekend, foreign ministers from Britain, France, Germany, Italy, Poland, Spain and the EU meeting successful London this morning to sermon what’s adjacent for Ukraine and broader information issues.
I volition bring you each the cardinal updates passim the day.
It’s Monday, 12 May 2025, it’s Jakub Krupa here, and this is Europe Live.
Good morning.
English (US) ·