Ukraine.- Kallas says Russia has "no intention" of ending the war in Ukraine "soon."

BRUSSELS, 17 (EUROPA PRESS)

The European Union's High Representative for Foreign Policy, Kaja Kallas, has positively assessed the summit held this Friday in Alaska between the US and Russian leaders, Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin, although she asserted that the Russian president will not end the war in Ukraine "anytime soon."

"The harsh reality is that Russia has no intention of ending this war anytime soon. Even as the delegations were meeting, Russia launched new attacks against Ukraine . Putin continues to drag out the negotiations and hopes to get his way. He left Anchorage without committing to ending the killing," the head of European diplomacy said in statements reported by Europa Press.

In this regard, Kallas urged the Trump administration to "force Russia to negotiate seriously," asserting that the United States has the "power" to achieve this. "The EU will work with Ukraine and the US to prevent Russian aggression from succeeding and to ensure that peace is sustainable," the Estonian politician maintained.

European Union leaders coordinated with President Trump ahead of the bilateral meeting in Alaska, according to Kallas, a meeting that ended without any major announcements regarding Ukraine, although several media outlets reported that Putin had made the withdrawal of Ukrainian forces from the Donbas region—which includes the Donetsk and Luhansk provinces—a condition for future peace.

The High Representative reiterated the EU's support for Ukraine and indicated that they are working on a new sanctions package against Russia. "Moscow will not end the war until it realizes it cannot continue," she stated.

Nor does he contemplate changes to European security after Trump and Putin advocated for security measures for Ukraine outside NATO during the Alaska meeting. Kallas defined the war as a consequence of "Russia's imperialist foreign policy" and not an "imaginary imbalance in the European security architecture."

Several European leaders—including Macron, Merz, and Starmer—stressed their "unwavering solidarity" with Ukraine on Saturday and offered their support for organizing a three-way meeting that would also include Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.

Likewise, this Sunday they have convened a new meeting of the so-called Coalition of the Willing, which brings together some thirty countries allied with Ukraine, including Spain. This new meeting is scheduled to discuss the latest developments, including Friday's summit in Alaska and Zelensky's trip to Washington next Monday.