MOSCOW, December 10. /TASS/. Europe and the United States are increasingly at odds over the Ukraine peace process; Donald Trump insists on elections in Ukraine; and EU countries are sharply divided over whether and how to use frozen Russian assets to fund Kiev. These stories topped Wednesday’s newspaper headlines across Russia.
A rift between Ukraine’s allies – the United States on one side and Europe on the other – has grown markedly wider. Kiev and Brussels have effectively spurned the key provision of the US peace plan, declaring that Ukraine will not agree to territorial concessions, and are now preparing their own version of the document for Washington. Meanwhile, Europeans are clearly seeking to stall any settlement, the Russian Foreign Ministry told Izvestia.
Europe is not striving for any kind of peace, Director of the Department of European Cooperation at the Russian Foreign Ministry Vladislav Maslennikov told Izvestia. "They are plainly pursuing the goal of dragging out the settlement. This has long been evident to everyone," he said.
This realization is gradually reaching the United States as well. Washington has come to understand what the Zelensky regime represents and what Europeans truly seek, First Deputy Chairman of the Federation Council Committee on International Affairs Vladimir Dzhabarov told Izvestia.
