Kallas goes to clash with Trump for "lifting sanctions" on Russia and remembers that it is Putin who has to stop the war

Kaja Kallas clashed with Donald Trump this Monday over his latest comments on Ukraine and came out in defense of Volodimir Zelensky after criticism from the American president. The High Representative of the EU warns that kyiv cannot hold elections in the middle of a war and that the supposed energy truce announced by the United States only benefits Moscow. This was expressed this Monday in Luxembourg at the meeting of foreign ministers of the 27.

"Almost all constitutions have provisions that establish that, when there is a war, elections cannot be held," said the head of European diplomacy in response to the tenant of the White House, who this weekend called for "a new leader for Ukraine" and put all the pressure on Zelensky, while reaching an agreement with Putin to release diesel and lower the price of fuel.

In fact, Kallas went against Trump for "lifting sanctions" on Moscow, and assured that if the US "maintains pressure" on Russia to stop the war, then "Ukraine will hold elections." In this sense, Zelensky himself had requested a total truce of 60 days to be able to organize the elections. "It would work much better if our partners in the United Kingdom and the United States were aligned with us. The United Kingdom is, but if the United States were also aligned, if it passed the Graham law on Russia, we could really put pressure on Russia to end this war," said the Estonian leader.

In this sense, he also does not trust the energy truce advocated by Trump, and which is not fully fulfilled because Russia already attacked this Monday a dry cargo ship in the Black Sea and four locomotives in the regions of Odesa and Dnipropetrovsk, according to the Russian Ministry of Defense. In addition, Moscow attacked energy infrastructure in the Zhytomyr region of northern Ukraine on Sunday night.

"Of course, we welcome the energy ceasefire when it is fulfilled. We have not yet seen that Russia is going to respect it," Kallas commented on the matter very cautiously. "Personally, I would also appreciate it if the ceasefire included not killing people, not just energy, although energy is also extremely important because the winter is going to be cold," he said.

And these days, in the face of Trump's criticism, Zelensky found the 'embrace' of European partners, as seen in the message published by the president of the Commission, Ursula von der Leyen. "The war has entered a new, darker phase. Russia is stuck on the battlefield and attacking civilians far from the front lines. I convey our solidarity with the Ukrainian people and my full support for President Zelensky as he leads the fight for the freedom of his people," he said.