On the crisis between Russia and Ukraine “Summits at the level of ministers or leaders, in any format, any modality that allows you to talk to each other, sit at a table and try to avoid a war, are very useful. We will support anything that can do diplomatic conversations the way to find a solution to the crisis “. This was stated by EU High Representative Josep Borrell, in Brussels on the sidelines of the Foreign Affairs Council, about a possible summit between Joe Biden and Vladimir Putin on the Ukrainian crisis.
For the sanctions against Russia to be adopted in the event of an attack on Ukraine, continues Borrell, “the work is done: we are ready. I will convene an extraordinary Council and I will present the sanctions at the right time: when the time comes, I will call it. Council making the decision. I hope that moment does not come. ”
Does it exclude the scenario of a war? “We work to avoid it,” she replies. For Borrell, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba, whom he saw last night and who will attend the Council in Brussels today, is not at all “panicked. I don’t see the minister nervous. On the contrary: Volodymyr Zelensky said the worst enemy would be the panic “. The Ukrainians “are not in panic. They are worried, they feel threatened, but they are not at all nervous”, he concludes.