{"id":381847,"date":"2025-08-29T05:54:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-29T05:54:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/381847\/"},"modified":"2025-08-29T05:54:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-29T05:54:10","slug":"eu-condemns-russian-attack-on-kyiv-office-dw-08-29-2025-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/381847\/","title":{"rendered":"EU condemns Russian attack on Kyiv office \u2013 DW \u2013 08\/29\/2025"},"content":{"rendered":"

After Russia launched its full-scale invasion<\/a> of Ukraine in February 2022, Moscow and Kyiv held rounds of peace talks the following month \u2014 first in Belarus, and later in Turkey.<\/p>\n

Those negotiations failed after the two sides disagreed on key points, including Russia requiring that Ukraine abandon its ambitions to join NATO and limit its military.<\/p>\n

But\u00a02025<\/strong>\u00a0has seen a renewed diplomatic push:<\/p>\n

Donald Trump’s return to the White House in January <\/strong>marked a renewal of efforts toward\u00a0a ceasefire deal.<\/p>\n

In late February<\/strong>, he hosted Volodymyr Zelenskyy at the White House. That meeting ended abruptly after an acrimonious argument that played out in front of watching journalists.<\/p>\n

\"PresidentTrump and his Vice President JD Vance accused the Ukrainian leader of being ungrateful and told him he had ‘no cards to play’ in negotiations with MoscowImage: Brian Snyder\/REUTERS<\/p>\n

In a bid to apply pressure on Ukraine, the US suspended military aid in\u00a0March\u00a0<\/strong>and stopped sharing intelligence with Ukraine.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Kyiv agreed to a 30-day ceasefire, but Russia refused, saying that the “root causes” of the conflict needed to be addressed before a full truce could be implemented.<\/p>\n

By mid-April<\/strong>, frustration in Washington had grown to the point that Trump said the US was ready to abandon the peace process unless significant progress was made.<\/p>\n

In early May<\/strong>, Russia unilaterally implemented a three-day ceasefire<\/p>\n

After European leaders urged Putin to extend that truce, the Russian president proposed a resumption of direct talks in Istanbul that were frozen in 2022.\u00a0Neither Putin nor Zelenskyy attended those negotiations, with low-level delegations instead being sent to the Turkish city.\u00a0The talks resulted in an exchange of prisoners of war (POWs)<\/a> and a pledge to continue the dialogue.<\/p>\n

Two more rounds<\/a> of talks in June and Jul<\/strong>y<\/strong> also failed to secure any meaningful progress on a lasting peace agreement, or even a brief ceasefire.<\/p>\n

During a meeting with the UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer in late July<\/strong>, Trump set a deadline of “10 or 12” days for Putin to end the war.<\/p>\n

In August<\/strong>, Trump hosted Putin for a historic summit in the US state of Alaska<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"VladimirHeld under the slogan ‘Pursuing Peace,’ Trump went into the talks confident that a ceasefire deal would be reached.Image: Sergei Bobylev\/TASS\/IMAGO<\/p>\n

However, despite Trump claiming the meeting was “productive,” the summit was inconclusive, with no deals signed<\/a>. <\/p>\n

Later in August, European leaders backed Zelenskyy<\/a> in his return to the White House to press Trump on security guarantees and block territorial concessions. It was later suggested that Zelenskyy and Putin would seen meet for peace talks.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"UkrainianWhile no date and location have been set, European leaders said they would support such a meeting if it reinforced Ukraine’s sovereignty and avoided concessions imposed from outsideImage: Alexander Drago\/REUTERS<\/p>\n

The barrage of drones and missiles Russia launched on Kyiv overnight is the deadliest attack since the Alaska summit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, Moscow and Kyiv held rounds of peace…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":380833,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7654],"tags":[2000,299,657],"class_list":{"0":"post-381847","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ukraine","8":"tag-eu","9":"tag-europe","10":"tag-ukraine"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115110508246773322","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381847","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=381847"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381847\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/380833"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=381847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=381847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=381847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}