International EU initially receives no information on Trump-Putin phone call
As of Wednesday morning, the EU had not received any information from the USA on the progress of the Ukraine negotiations between President Donald Trump and Kremlin leader Vladimir Putin.
19.03.2025, 12:49
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Attempts are now being made to organize talks in order to obtain first-hand information, EU foreign affairs representative Kaja Kallas told the German Press Agency and other news agencies in Brussels.
However, contact had already been made with the Ukrainians. The Ukrainians have so far been cautious about the phone call with which Trump wanted to persuade Putin to agree to a ceasefire in the Russian war against Ukraine.
Kallas saw the information on the consultations made public so far by the Russian and US sides as proof "that Russia does not actually want to make any concessions". The question now is what will happen next.
Kallas: "This cannot work"
Kallas considers the Russian demands for a stop to Western military aid for Ukraine to be unacceptable. "If they achieve that no more military aid is provided to Ukraine, they can simply carry on because the Ukrainians can no longer defend themselves," she explained. This clearly could not work.
"The strongest security guarantee there is is a strong Ukrainian army," said the former Estonian prime minister.
Trump had tried to persuade Russian President Putin to agree to a ceasefire in a telephone call on Tuesday. However, it was only possible to reach an agreement that Russia would not fire on energy facilities in the neighboring country for 30 days if Ukraine also refrained from such attacks.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyi said that his country supported the idea, but still needed information on what exactly Trump and Putin had agreed.
