Russia’s Lavrov Says No Point in Inviting European Leaders to Ukraine Talks

I don't know what they [European officials] would do at the negotiating table... if they are going to sit at the negotiating table with the aim of continuing war, then why invite them there

Lavrov said at a press conference in Moscow

A wind of unity is blowing over Europe, as we perhaps have not felt since the COVID period.”

Speaking to France-Info on Sunday, Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barrot sought to project a united front

The risk that Russia will occupy Europe is 100%,

he said in comments to the “Meet the Press” program recorded Friday

The first phase is the pre-negotiation, and this is a moment when we need to rearm Ukraine and put maximum pressure on Russia, which means sanctions, which means frozen assets, so that Ukraine begins these negotiations from a position of strength,

Stubb said

Don’t underestimate Trump as a negotiator. I genuinely believe that Putin is baffled and afraid what might be coming from there,

Stubb said

I can announce that I will propose to activate the ‘escape clause’ for defense investments,

she said

I think in Europe we need to talk less and do more,

he added later

When I spoke to Kellogg yesterday he didn’t say anything of that sort,

Stubb said

Of course, there comes a time when discussions have to begin. The president of the United States has begun those conversations with Putin. But the end state of this conversation is nowhere near, and everything is on the table,

he told The Moscow Times

It was agreed to organise a meeting of experts in the very near future to agree on specific steps to mutually remove obstacles to the work of Russian and US missions abroad,

the ministry said in its statement