EU's Kallas warns against Ukraine land concessions, calls territorial demands 'Russian playbook'


EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Kaja Kallas, attends the official signing event of the EU-Ghana Security and Defense Partnership in Accra, Ghana, March 24, 2026 REUTERS/Francis Kokoroko

PARIS, March ⁠26 (Reuters) - The European Unions is ⁠worried about Ukraine being pressured ‌by the United States into ceding territory in negotiations with Russia, the EU foreign ​policy chief Kaja ⁠Kallas said on ⁠Thursday.

"This is clearly a wrongapproach. It ⁠is, of ‌course, the Russian playbook of negotiations, that ⁠they are demanding something that has ​never been ‌theirs, and that's why we ⁠are also ​flagging that this is the trap that we should not ⁠walk into," Kallas said on ​the sidelines of a G7 meeting in France.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy ⁠told Reuters that the U.S. had been linking its offer for security guarantees on the condition that ​Kyiv would cede ⁠the eastern region of Donbas to ​Moscow.

(Reporting by Andrew ‌Gray, Charlotte Van Campenhout; ​Writing by Gianluca Lo Nostro; Editing by Brussels Bureau)

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