EU top diplomat on peace talks: "It could be pivotal week for diplomacy"

The current week may prove decisive for the course of negotiations on establishing peace in Ukraine.

A European Pravda journalist in Brussels noted that Kaja Kallas, EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy had made this statement ahead of a meeting of the EU Council on Foreign Affairs at the level of defence ministers.

The EU's top diplomat believes that this week could be critical for the peace-negotiation process concerning Ukraine.

"It could be a pivotal week for diplomacy. 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," she said.

It is worth noting that Ukraine's Defence Minister Denys Shmyhal is expected to be physically present at today's EU Council meeting in Brussels, where the issue of assistance to Ukraine will be discussed.

"We have two broad topics: one is how to further support Ukraine and the other one is on our own defence readiness and defence capabilities that we need to build up," Kallas noted.

She added that at the moment, "it is clear that Russia does not want peace and therefore we need to make Ukraine as strong as possible in order for them to be ready to stand up for themselves in this very, very difficult time".

"I trust that Ukrainians stand up for themselves," Kallas said.

As European Pravda reported earlier, Rustem Umierov, Secretary of the National Security and Defence Council of Ukraine, is travelling from the United States to Paris, where the Ukrainian president is currently visiting. He will personally brief President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on the outcome of talks with the United States on the parameters of a peace agreement to end the Russo–Ukrainian war.

Meanwhile, key American negotiators will travel to Moscow on 1 December to continue coordinating the terms of a potential peace agreement.