The Daily Populous Saturday August 23rd, 2025 morning edition
Authored by politico.eu and submitted by pheexio

It’s “clear that Russia does not want peace,” she told BBC Radio 4.

“Any promises that Putin has given so far, he hasn’t kept,” she said, adding that the Alaska summit had been a public relations jackpot for the Kremlin.

“This is what he [Putin] wanted,” Kallas said. “It was clear before the meeting that he wants the picture, but he got so much more. He got such a welcoming in America.”

Calling Trump’s efforts to broker a truce “welcome,” Kallas said the Russian ruler was nonetheless less inclined to come to the negotiating table after Alaska “because he has achieved what he wanted from this meeting.”

“Putin is just laughing, not stopping the killing but increasing the killing,” she added.

Trump’s whirlwind diplomacy in the last two weeks, including the summits in Alaska and Washington, has yet to extract any concessions from Moscow, which has not backed down from its maximalist demands — namely that Ukraine give up vast swathes of territory in its eastern Donbas region, which Russian troops have partially occupied, and renounce joining NATO.

davidgt22 on August 22nd, 2025 at 10:07 UTC »

The Ukraine peace situation is really sad, I hope for the best to Ukraine's people.

SiWeyNoWay on August 22nd, 2025 at 09:52 UTC »

we know

wetbhai on August 22nd, 2025 at 09:52 UTC »

But but trumps peace effort is the best in the history of mankind... he should be awarded interplanetary peace prize for this.