The Finnish President Alexander Stubb said on Sunday at the Munich Security Conference that the EU needs a special envoy to Ukraine in the peace talks to prevent being cut out of the negotiations, to do something similar to what was done in Kosovo.
On Saturday the US Envoy to Ukraine Keith Kellogg said that Europe will not take part directly in the peace talks, but Stubbs said he will focus on to give Ukraine and Europe a voice in such talks.
Stubb, who is now the new European special envoy, said, “If there is a negotiating table, I think we need to do something similar to what was done in Kosovo. Europe needs to have a special envoy.
“”And then, a deputy envoy, who is on the level of Kellogg, (Steve) Witkoff, (Andriy) Yermak, or (Yuriy) Ushakov.”
Reuters reported the Croation Prime Minister Andrej Plenkovic echoed a similar statement, saying that Europe must have a strong representative at the negotiating table.
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Plenkovic said, “What we lacked on Ukraine in recent years was one personality highly respected by everyone, taken into account in Moscow, taken into account in Kyiv, and having support in Washington and European capitals and other leaders, including the global South, that could have the authority to manage the peace talks.”
On Saturday Politico reported that senior US officials are heading to Saudi Arabia to hold talks with their Russian officials and lay the groundwork so that President Donald Trump and President Vladimir Putin can hold talks, this will happen without Ukraine being involved, this has caused alarm in Kyiv.
The Kyiv Independent reported that, Mykhailo Podolyak, an advisor to President Volodymyr Zelensky “There is nothing on the negotiating table that would be worth discussing,” he said on Ukrainian TV, he added, “Russia is not ready for negotiations.”
