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The European Union made their place on President Donald Trump’s “land swapping” push clear following a ministerial powwow on Monday, and instructed Fox Information Digital, there ought to be no “concessions” till Russia agrees to cease its struggle.
“Russia has not agreed to full and unconditional ceasefire, we must always not even focus on any concessions,” EU coverage chief Kaja Kallas instructed Fox Information Digital in a written assertion. “It has by no means labored previously with Russia, and won’t work with Putin right this moment.
“The sequencing of the steps is vital,” she added. “First an unconditional ceasefire with a powerful monitoring system and ironclad safety ensures.”
Kallas known as for a digital assembly of EU international ministers — in addition to Ukraine’s International Minister Andrii Sybiha who debriefed the officers on “ongoing diplomatic efforts and the battlefield scenario” on Monday — following the announcement of the upcoming assembly between Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin set for Friday in Alaska.
US President Donald Trump throughout a information convention within the James S. Brady Press Briefing Room of the White Home in Washington, DC, US, on Monday, Aug. 11, 2025. (Yuri Gripas/Abaca/Bloomberg through Getty Pictures)
Whereas the talks on Monday addressed extra sanctions towards Russia, extra army assist for Ukraine and extra financial help for Kyiv, in addition they coincided with feedback made by Trump that struck a crucial be aware of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
European leaders have but to reply on to Trump’s reproving tone forward of his assembly with Putin on Friday, although Kallas’ feedback made clear neither the EU nor Ukraine help Trump’s most up-to-date proposal that Ukraine and Russia “swap” borders.
“We absolutely help an finish to this struggle in a method that doesn’t depart a backdoor open for Russia to re-enter and restart its aggression,” she stated. “Ukraine’s proper to exist as a sovereign nation is beneath assault, in addition to the safety of our European continent.”
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Particulars of Trump’s upcoming assembly with Putin stay comparatively unknown, although European officers are eager to remind each leaders of the necessity to contain them and Kyiv within the high-level talks.
“The U.S. has the ability to power Russia to barter severely,” Kallas instructed Fox Information Digital. “Any deal between the U.S. and Russia should have Ukraine and the EU included, for it’s a matter of Ukraine’s and the entire of Europe’s safety.”
Kallas has remained steadfast in her willpower that any negotiations on Ukraine should embrace Europe because the continent stares down its most important risk since World Warfare II.
However it’s not solely Europe’s involvement in any safety negotiations that EU leaders want to remind Trump of, however Ukraine’s territorial sovereignty.
“As we work in the direction of a sustainable and simply peace, worldwide regulation is evident: All quickly occupied territories belong to Ukraine,” Kallas stated. “A sustainable peace additionally implies that aggression can’t be rewarded.”
European leaders over the weekend from the U.Okay., France, Italy, Germany, Poland, Finland and the EU issued an announcement affirming that “the trail to peace in Ukraine can’t be determined with out Ukraine.”
Zelenskyy risked Trump’s ire and regarded to set the file straight on Saturday after the U.S. president advised on Friday that Ukraine and Russia could “swap” territory.
Volodymyr Zelensky, President of Ukraine, holds his hand to his chest after his speech within the German Bundestag. (Bernd von Jutrczenka/image alliance/Getty Pictures)
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“You’re looking at territory that has been fought over for 3.5 years,” Trump instructed reporters from the White Home in reference to land Russia has illegally invaded and occupied in japanese Ukraine. “We’re taking a look at that. However we’re taking a look at swapping. We’re going to get some again.”
Zelenskyy responded by confirming that “Ukrainians is not going to give their land to the occupier.”
“Any selections made towards us, any selections made with out Ukraine — they’re concurrently selections towards peace,” he added. “These are useless selections; they are going to by no means work. And what all of us want is an actual, dwelling peace, one that folks will respect.”
In her feedback to Fox Information Digital, Kallas regarded to remind Trump that Putin’s interests lay outdoors a mere land seize in Ukraine — it’s an existential risk to the European continent.
French President Emmanuel Macron, European Fee President Ursula Von der Leyen, NATO Secretary Common Mark Rutte, Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, US Secretary of Treasury Scott Bessent, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, British Prime Minister Keir Starmer, and Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni meet through the Group of Seven (G7) Summit on the Pomeroy Kananaskis Mountain Lodge in Kananaskis, Alberta, Canada on June 17, 2025. (LUDOVIC MARIN/AFP through Getty Pictures)
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“Russia’s struggle goals are extra than simply seizing territory in Ukraine,” she stated. “Russia began this struggle to destroy Ukraine and Europe’s safety.
“A deal should not present a springboard for additional Russian aggression towards Ukraine, the transatlantic alliance and Europe,” she added.
German Chancellor Friedrich Merz invited Trump, Zelenskyy, and NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte for one more digital assembly on Wednesday with different European leaders forward of Trump’s high talks, reviews confirmed on Monday.
Trump on Monday reiterated his aim that first he’ll meet with Putin, after which Zelenskyy will meet with Putin, with or with out the U.S. president, to safe a ceasefire.
