Vladimir Putin is laying a trap he wants the West to “walk into” over Ukrainian land concessions, the EU’s top diplomat has said.
The Russian president is still demanding that Kyiv give up the entire Donbas region, Reuters reported on Thursday citing sources familiar with top-level Kremlin thinking.
Kaja Kallas, the former prime minister of Estonia, told the BBC’s Today programme that handing Ukrainian territory to Russia was a “trap that Putin wants us to walk into”.
“Putin is just laughing, not stopping the killing but increasing the killing,” she said. “We are forgetting that Russia has not made one single concession.”
Ms Kallas, who is on the Kremlin’s “wanted list”, said it was important that Ukraine be given “credible and robust” security guarantees to enforce any future agreement.
