EU Chief: Putin Mocks Trump's Peace Efforts

Vladimir Putin is reportedly "mocking" Donald Trump's peace efforts, according to EU's foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas, as reported by Politico.

• "It's clear that Russia does not want peace," says Kallas. She warns that the West risks falling into the Kremlin's "trap."

The American President Donald Trump met with Russian leader Vladimir Putin in Alaska last week in an attempt to establish peace in Ukraine. However, EU's foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas believes that Trump's efforts to end the war in Ukraine resulted in a "PR jackpot for the Kremlin" regarding the summit in Alaska.

• "This was what Putin wanted. It was clear even before the meeting that he wanted the image, but he got so much more. He received such a welcome in America," says Kallas.

She argued that it is "clear that Russia does not want peace."

• "All the promises Putin has made so far, he has not kept," says Kallas.

"Putin Just Laughs"

Although Kallas "welcomed" Trump's attempts to negotiate a ceasefire, she believed that the Russian president was even less inclined to sit at the negotiating table after Alaska because he "got what he wanted from the meeting."

• "Putin just laughs, he doesn't stop killing but increases the killing," says Kallas.

She warned that it is a "trap that Putin wants us to fall into" to focus negotiations on Ukraine giving up parts of its territory and refraining from joining NATO.

• "We forget that Russia has not made a single concession and they are the aggressor here," says Kallas.

Regarding a potential international peacekeeping force, Kallas stated that no "concrete steps" have been taken yet.

• "Russia will just regroup its forces and attack again, so we must ensure they cannot do that in the future," says Kallas.