Comments come after Putin rejected peace deal after US talks and warned that Russia is ‘ready’ for war with Europe
Back to Brussels, the foreign ministers from European Nato countries showed little patience with Moscow this morning.
“What we see is that Putin has not changed any course. He’s pushing more aggressively on the battlefield,” Estonian foreign minister Margus Tsahkna said in comments reported by AP. “It’s pretty obvious that he doesn’t want to have any kind of peace.”
Finland’s foreign minister Elina Valtonen struck the same note. “So far we haven’t seen any concessions from the side of the aggressor, which is Russia, and I think the best confidence-building measure would be to start with a full ceasefire,” she told reporters.
Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy has pledged to “work constructively in pursuit of a real peace,” as he continues Ukraine’s diplomatic offensive today, with his security advisor, Rustem Umerov, meeting with the European national security advisors in Brussels.
