Putin’s demands on west’s support for Ukraine ‘unacceptable’, says Germany as Russia launches overnight strikes – live

German defence minister says Putin’s desire to render Ukraine defenceless is ‘very transparent’European Union foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas said that Moscow cannot be trusted, after a phone call between US president Donald Trump and Russia’s Vladimir Putin resulted in a Russian agreement to stop attacking Ukrainian energy facilities temporarily.“If you read the two readouts from the call, it is clear that ... Russia does not really want to make any kind of concessions,” Kallas told reporters in Brussels, Reuters reported.“The point is that, up until recently, we really didn’t have consensus around these two aspects, the energy and infrastructure ceasefire and the Black Sea moratorium on firing.And today we got to that place, and I think it’s a relatively short distance to a full ceasefire from there. Continue reading...

Mar 19, 2025 - 09:50

Putin’s demands on west’s support for Ukraine ‘unacceptable’, says Germany as Russia launches overnight strikes – live

German defence minister says Putin’s desire to render Ukraine defenceless is ‘very transparent’

European Union foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas said that Moscow cannot be trusted, after a phone call between US president Donald Trump and Russia’s Vladimir Putin resulted in a Russian agreement to stop attacking Ukrainian energy facilities temporarily.

“If you read the two readouts from the call, it is clear that ... Russia does not really want to make any kind of concessions,” Kallas told reporters in Brussels, Reuters reported.

“The point is that, up until recently, we really didn’t have consensus around these two aspects, the energy and infrastructure ceasefire and the Black Sea moratorium on firing.

And today we got to that place, and I think it’s a relatively short distance to a full ceasefire from there. Continue reading...