Norway’s FM Espen Barth Eide says Europe’s strong support for Ukraine makes a neutral mediator role impossible, as EU foreign ministers gather in Lemesos, Cyprus to debate the EU’s next diplomatic step, Thursday, 28 May.

Foreign Minister Espen Barth Eide’s stance clashes with that of EU top diplomat Kaja Kallas, who characterized direct negotiations with Putin as a “trap.”

The EU’s top diplomat on Thursday ruled out Europe acting as a “neutral mediator” between Ukraine and Russia, after foreign ministers from the bloc’s 27