Europe must keep the financial pressure on Russia even though a ceasefire has never seemed closer in Ukraine’s three-year war with Moscow, the chief of staff to Volodymyr Zelenskyy, the Ukrainian president, has written in the Guardian as he starts talks in Jeddah with the US about the terms of any truce.
The US secretary of state, Marco Rubio, has convened the talks to test Ukraine’s willingness to make concessions to Russia to achieve peace, but Andriy Yermak has urged Europe “to remain united to counter Russian aggression now and deter it in the future”.
