{"id":5141,"date":"2025-10-20T08:01:02","date_gmt":"2025-10-20T08:01:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/globaltalenthq.com\/?p=5141"},"modified":"2025-10-20T18:36:41","modified_gmt":"2025-10-20T18:36:41","slug":"eu-trying-to-derail-putin-trump-summit-moscow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globaltalenthq.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/20\/eu-trying-to-derail-putin-trump-summit-moscow\/","title":{"rendered":"EU trying to derail Putin-Trump summit \u2013 Moscow"},"content":{"rendered":"
The bloc continues to do all it can to escalate the Ukraine conflict, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova has said<\/strong><\/p>\n The EU is doing everything in its power to undermine the upcoming summit between Russian President Vladimir Putin and his US counterpart, Donald Trump, the Russian Foreign Ministry has said. <\/p>\n Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova told TASS on Monday that the bloc is carrying out “active subversive actions”<\/em> ahead of the planned meeting in the Hungarian capital, Budapest.<\/p>\n Her comments followed a report by Spanish outlet El Pais, which said Brussels viewed the talks as “a political nightmare.”<\/em> Citing diplomatic sources, the newspaper reported that the summit put the EU “in an awkward and unpleasant position”<\/em> because Putin and Trump would discuss a potential settlement to the Ukraine conflict in an EU country without the bloc’s participation.<\/p>\n Zakharova said the “aggressive Western European community”<\/em> wants to “derail any peaceful aspirations”<\/em> related to the conflict. “We are seeing statements, threats being made,”<\/em> she added.<\/p>\n The Western Europeans are “obviously, doing everything to escalate the conflict”<\/em> between Moscow and Kiev, the spokeswoman stressed. They have been acting this way since 2022 when they “thwarted”<\/em> the peace talks between the sides in Istanbul, she added.<\/p>\n \n Read more<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n According to former Ukrainian head negotiator David Arakhamia, Ukraine withdrew from dialogue with Russia after then-British Prime Minister Boris Johnson arrived in Kiev and urged Vladimir Zelensky to keep fighting. The former UK prime minister has denied the claims.<\/p>\n Zakharova said sporadic statements about the need for peace coming from EU capitals and London are just “camouflage.”<\/em><\/p>\n “In reality, they are doing everything they can to achieve escalation. It is difficult to say if they actually understand what they are doing, given how many non-professionals there are at the helms of all these Western European countries,”<\/em> she noted.<\/p>\n The announcement that Putin and Trump plan to meet in Budapest was made after the two leaders spoke by phone for nearly two and a half hours on Thursday.<\/p>\n