US-Russia talks may press Kyiv for concessions, says EU foreign policy chief

Kaja Kallas says negotiators should not ‘lose focus that it’s actually Russia who has started this war’

Kallas speaks with the media as she arrives for a meeting of EU foreign and defense ministers in Brussels. Picture: Virginia Mayo/AP

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.