{"id":337405,"date":"2025-08-12T03:24:12","date_gmt":"2025-08-12T03:24:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/337405\/"},"modified":"2025-08-12T03:24:12","modified_gmt":"2025-08-12T03:24:12","slug":"stand-up-for-ukraine-when-you-talk-to-putin-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/337405\/","title":{"rendered":"Stand up for Ukraine when you talk to Putin \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"

Such demands show Europe is growing more comfortable in putting its positions forward on the resolution of Russia\u2019s war against Ukraine, with views that have recently been more pro-Kyiv than Washington\u2019s under Trump.<\/p>\n

\"\"Chief EU diplomat Kaja Kallas, after an emergency meeting of European foreign ministers on Monday, said that no concessions should be discussed before Russia agrees to a full ceasefire. | Mohd Rasfan\/EPA<\/p>\n

Earlier this week, the leaders of Germany, France, Poland, Finland and the U.K., as well as the head of the European Commission, warned that any peace deal needed to respect Ukraine\u2019s \u201cterritorial integrity\u201d \u2014 code for not forcing Kyiv to give up land \u2014 as well as security guarantees.<\/p>\n

Though Kyiv has not publicly entertained the prospect of conceding land to Russia, Republican Senator Lindsey Graham said a\u00a0final peace deal would most likely include \u201cland swaps\u201d \u2014 a point echoed by Trump\u2019s chief negotiator Steve Witkoff and, later on Monday, Trump himself<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Nonetheless, Trump, while indicating he envisages Ukraine ceding some territory to Russia, said he hopes some land will go the other way. \u201cRussia has occupied a big portion of Ukraine,\u201d he said. \u201cThey\u2019ve occupied some very prime territory. We\u2019re going to try and get some of that territory back for Ukraine.\u201d<\/p>\n

While Trump has declined to talk about security guarantees, his stance toward Ukraine has progressively moved closer to the European one following months of fruitless contacts with the Kremlin. Trump voiced frustration that Putin<\/a> was \u201ctapping him along\u201d on Ukraine, while shortening a proposed deadline for a full ceasefire.<\/p>\n

Trump\u2019s engagement is in marked contrast to his attitude during the first few months of his presidency<\/a> when he mainly spoke to Putin directly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Such demands show Europe is growing more comfortable in putting its positions forward on the resolution of Russia\u2019s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":337406,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7654],"tags":[1789,32,34,2000,299,769,36,1945,1824,2817,2596,807,2597,770,332,811,7070,16,657,15,49,333,2601,771],"class_list":{"0":"post-337405","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ukraine","8":"tag-belgium","9":"tag-donald-trump","10":"tag-emmanuel-macron","11":"tag-eu","12":"tag-europe","13":"tag-finland","14":"tag-france","15":"tag-friedrich-merz","16":"tag-germany","17":"tag-intelligence","18":"tag-kaja-kallas","19":"tag-keir-starmer","20":"tag-military","21":"tag-poland","22":"tag-russia","23":"tag-security","24":"tag-steve-witkoff","25":"tag-uk","26":"tag-ukraine","27":"tag-united-kingdom","28":"tag-united-states","29":"tag-vladimir-putin","30":"tag-volodymyr-zelenskyy","31":"tag-war"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115013659609572024","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337405","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=337405"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337405\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/337406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=337405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=337405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=337405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}