Article 71VG7 US-Russia talks may pile pressure on Kyiv to make concessions, says EU foreign policy chief

US-Russia talks may pile pressure on Kyiv to make concessions, says EU foreign policy chief

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Jennifer Rankin in Brussels and Pjotr Sauer
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Kaja Kallas says negotiators should not lose focus that it's actually Russia who has started this war'

The EU's foreign policy chief, Kaja Kallas, has said she fears talks between the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, and Donald Trump's special envoy, Steve Witkoff, will pile pressure on Ukraine to make concessions with the two men expected to meet on Tuesday.

Witkoff, the property developer turned envoy recently exposed for coaching Russian officials on how to win Trump's favour, is arriving in Moscow after leading a US delegation in talks with Ukraine at the weekend, nearly four years after Russia launched its full-scale invasion.

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