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This is the war that is going on in the shadows,
EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Kaja Kallas told Belgian broadcaster VRT in response
This sensible club aimed at integration, which used to promote cooperation with Russia, has today definitively turned into a fossilized, aggressive Russophobia bloc, which has staked its energy, economic, social and financial wellbeing on a pointless confrontation with its eastern neighbor,
Vassily Nebenzia said
The EU will remain the U.N.’s reliable partner of choice”
Kallas told the councilThe world is more dangerous now than it has ever been since the Cold War.”
At a news conference afterward, she saidToday, more than ever, it’s clear that the EU is seriously losing in this confrontation,
he saidWashington has become Nero’s court,
he declared, alluding to the tyrannical Roman emperor,
I would see perhaps 15,000 to 20,000 European troops, enough to deter, but not so large as to be seen by Moscow as a NATO battle corps,
said Camille Grand, a defense expert at the European Council on Foreign Relations in Brussels.jpg)
Who can believe that the Russia of today will stop at Ukraine?”
Mr. Macron asked in a speech to the nation last week.jpg)
We were at war with a dictator,
Mr. Malhuret said, alluding to Mr. Putin
We’ll make a deal, and when the deal is made, I don’t think we talk about security,
Mr. Trump said, suggesting Mr. Putin could be trustedIt is imperative that the delivery of humanitarian aid is not politicized or conditional. Any and all blockades to delivery of aid at scale must be lifted,
Kallas said
This war can end instantly if Russia -- the only one responsible -- withdraws its troops and stops bombing Ukraine. Russia can stop this war any time -- but it has chosen not to,
Kallas saidWe see blatant violations of the UN Charter. We see attempts to replace the rule of law by the rule of force,
the former Estonian prime minister saidEurope has learnt from its own history that giving in to aggressors' demands leads to more violence,
the official told envoys including from the United States and Russia, two of the Security Council's permanent membersI'd like to call on you to think long and hard about whether the UN needs to engage in dialogue with such a body which itself flagrantly violates human rights,
the Russian envoy told the councilThe EU calls for the respect of international law, international humanitarian law and human rights in every context they are at risk or actively violated. Be it in Gaza, Sudan, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Myanmar, Haiti or Ukraine,
she added