The pressure of the US president, Donald Trump, so that Ukraine accepts a proposal to end the war that has the Moscow footprint in practically all his points not only anguish to kyiv. Also in Brussels, Washington’s attitude is analyzed with concern, which in his efforts to achieve an exit to the war that lasts more than three years, insists on ignoring a European Union to which he has already made it clear that he despises. While they continue to claim their site in the negotiations, the twenty -seven are looking for how the Ukraine position policy and militarily so that it arrives “strong” to any negotiating table. On this path, Brussels knows that walking through a very fine line: aware that Washington seems to look for any excuse to get away from negotiations that Trump had promised to solve “in 24 hours”, the European bloc tries not to stir even more to the unpredictable Trump. The EU does not want the United States to disregard a conflict in which US help has been essential. But neither can support for kyiv and fundamental principles of international law. Because the problem is that the American demand for Ukraine to accept a plan that supposes that a European country attacked loses territory occupied by military force for the first time since World War II, has implications beyond the Ukrainian borders. Territorial integrity, enshrined in the United Nations Charter, is a principle whose international respect, especially the great powers, is essential to avoid precisely that military giants such as Russia – or China – can yield to the temptation to expand their territories by force. And that affects Europe, but also – Ivive the Kremlin appetite – to other Central Asian countries in the Russian interest sphere. In addition, it could question many other conflicts on other continents that remain in a precarious status quo only thanks to the respect of this principle that Washington now ignores. “Crimea is Ukraine,” said the European Commission in the last hours, in which he has also reiterated that, for the twenty -seven, “maintaining independence, territorial integrity and sovereignty of Ukraine is crucial.” It is also a principle enshrined in the NATO position of which the majority of EU countries and the US himself are members: “The allies do not recognize and will never recognize the illegal and illegitimate annexations of Russia, including the annexation of Crimea,” collects the Atlantic alliance in its position on Ukraine Direct attack against peace, security and the principles on which the United Nations was founded, ”recalled the high representative for foreign policy, Kaja Kallas, in a statement for International Multilateralism Day and diplomacy for peace. “This war highlights that the empire of the law should never be replaced by the empire of force. In many other conflicts that ride the Middle East, Sudan, Yemen, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and other places, the belligerent parts must remember that even the wars have rules,” said the last Russian attack against Ukraine, the most lethal suffered by kyiv since last summer They are also confirmed by their fears that Russia does not seek a peace agreement, but just extending the times to strengthen their position against future negotiations. “While claims to seek peace, Russia has launched a deadly missile attack against kyiv. This is not to seek peace, is to make fun of it,” Kallas said on social networks. A message in which, indirectly, also rejected Trump’s new recriminations to President Ukraine, Volodimir Zelenski, for not accepting the plan proposed by Washington. “The real obstacle is not Ukraine, but Russia, whose objects of the war have not changed,” said Moldova, another country in Moscow. “Russia must accept the total fire offered by Ukraine immediately and unconditionally,” said Foreign Minister José Manuel Albares, condemning the last Russian attack in Ukraine. “While Russia is occupied by choosing what he wants for a stop, he continues to attack Ukrainian cities,” denounced the Lithuanian president, Gitanas Nauseda, who assured that his country will support Ukraine “until the final victory.” His French par, Emmanuel Macron, has also said that it cannot be expected that Zelenski accepts the terms of the high the fire that is being negotiated between the US Russia and Ukraine while kyiv, the capital of the country, is being bombed. And he has urged the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, to “stop lying.” In line with Brussels, the spokesman of the Gallic Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Christophe Lemoine, added: “The principle of territorial integrity of Ukraine is not a point that can be negotiated.” It has also confirmed its Zelenski presence. Although nobody wanted to confirm a meeting with the American, in Brussels the door is not closed to an eventual “opportunity” on the margins, at a time when any effort can be decisive. (Tagstotranslate) War of Russia in Ukraine (T) Ukraine
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