European Union foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas said it could be a 'pivotal week' for diplomacy on Ukraine as she arrived at an EU defence ministers meeting in Brussels on Monday (1 December).
"It is clear that Russia does not want peace," she said, adding, "therefore we need to make Ukraine as strong as possible in order to prepare them to be ready to stand up for themselves in this very, very difficult time," Kallas added while speaking to the journalists before the meeting.
Her remarks follow her proposal last week to restrict the Russian army, in response to limits on the size of Ukraine’s armed forces under the U.S.-backed peace plan.
Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Alexander Grushko responded to Kallas’ proposition by reaffirming that “no power could curb Russia's military budget”, the TASS news agency reported.
Kallas also referred to Sunday's (30 November) meeting between U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio and a Ukrainian delegation, in Florida.
"We heard yesterday that the talks in America were difficult but productive. We don't know the results yet, but I will talk to the defence minister of Ukraine as well as the foreign minister of Ukraine today (1 December),” Kallas noted.
The Council is expected to discuss EU military aid to Kyiv after an informal exchange of views with Ukrainian Defence Minister Denys Shmyhal and NATO Deputy Secretary General Radmila Shekerinska.
Meanwhile, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is in Paris with French President Emmanuel Macron on Monday (1 December), as the Ukrainian leader finds himself in the most difficult political and military situation since the war began in 2022.
The two leaders will discuss "the conditions of a just and durable peace," following talks in Geneva and the American peace plan, the Elysee Palace said in a statement on Saturday (29 November).
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