Any attempt to achieve peace in Ukraine without the active participation of Kiev and European countries is doomed to failure, the head of European diplomacy Kaia Kalas warned today in Brussels, BTA reports.
According to her, any agreements reached without the participation of Ukraine and Europe will not lead to sustainable peace.
„Not a single agreement that is negotiated behind our backs will work. "Any future solution will require the participation of Ukraine and Europe," she said upon her arrival at NATO, quoted by Agence France-Presse.
She noted that any hasty peace solution would be a "dirty deal", recalling the failures of the 2014 Minsk agreements, which led to temporary peace but without lasting results, with repeated violations by Russia escalating into the invasion in 2022.
„We see what happens when there are quick solutions. The Minsk agreement was a similar attempt that did not lead to any positive results,“ Kallas stressed.
She also expressed disagreement with the “appeasement strategy“ that was implemented in Czechoslovakia in 1938, when Europe made concessions to Hitler, thereby laying the foundations for future conflicts.
“This strategy does not work. History has shown us that Moscow's concessions do not lead to lasting solutions," said Kallas, recalling the Munich Agreement.
The European diplomatic chief also shared German Chancellor Olaf Scholz's criticism of the US approach to the negotiations.
"Why should we give Russia everything it wants before the talks have even started?" she asked, questioning US President Donald Trump's strategy for resolving the conflict.
At the same time, US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said that after a possible peace agreement between Ukraine and Russia, Ukraine's accession to NATO would be "impossible," as would restoring the country's 2014 territorial borders.