The Kremlin has become a top destination for European leaders spooked at the prospect of war in Ukraine
Sergei Ryabkov, a senior Russian diplomat who led Moscow’s delegation in last month's security talks with the U.S. in Geneva, said recently that Russia was now setting"the agenda that the U.S. and the so-called ‘collective West’ now follow. We have seized the foreign policy initiative.”
France has also offered to send troops to Romania as part of NATO, which has regained a sense of unity in recent weeks. Oleksiy Danilov, the secretary of Ukraine’s National Security and Defense Council, warned against insisting the country stick to the obligations it was forced to take after a string of military defeats, arguing that it could trigger internal unrest that would play into Moscow’s hand.
Russia expert Tatiana Kastoueva-Jean, from the French Institute of international relations , said “we can at least give credit for maintaining the dialogue... It’s helpful to have a channel to express European concerns directly to Putin.”Macron recently acknowledged “a discussion with Russia is always difficult.
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