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Tirana- In the intense try and impose a cessate-the-film within the warfare in Ukraine, the European Union yesterday introduced a brand new pack of penalties in opposition to Moscow yesterday. The announcement got here right here in Tirana throughout a gathering of the European political neighborhood, the meeting that brings collectively nationwide managers of just about fifty European international locations and that yesterday vividly highlighted – with the assistance of Washington – the isolation of Russia on the continent.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky «was prepared for a gathering. Russian President Vladimir Putin didn’t present up. This demonstrates one factor: President Putin doesn’t need peace, “the president of the Community Executive Ursula von der Leyen, on the sidelines of a summit that tends to tend to tend every six months, said yesterday. “We need peace and we’ve got to extend the strain till President Putin is prepared for negotiations.”

The new pressures come in a crucial moment in the war between Russia and Ukraine. Yesterday in Tirana he dominated the desire of European managers to impose a cessation of hostilities in Moscow. The circumstances of this cohesion are to be found in a conflict that is now causing serious instability on the continent. There is more. The same disruptive return of Donald Trump to the White House triggered a brussels rapprochement first with London, and then with Ankara.

Conversely, the choice (for now) of President Putin not negotiating with President Zelensky has weakened Moscow (before the negotiation in Istanbul between the Russian and Ukrainian delegations, a meeting between Turkey, the United States and the Ukrainian was held yesterday, significantly in the absence of Russia). “The Russian delegation in Istanbul is with out energy (…) if it must be that that is actually solely on the facade and can’t obtain any outcomes, the world should react,” said the Ukrainian president.

On the sidelines of the works here in Tirana a meeting took place with the president Zelensky of the leaders of France, Great Britain, Germany and Poland (absent Italy). The five European leaders also spoke on the phone with President Trump. The six countries consider that “the Russian place is clearly unacceptable”, according to the English premier Keir Starmer, who then added: “I don’t settle for that Russia will postpone the ceased-the-calendar to the Greek calends”. Hard was also the Polish Premier Donald Tusk: “The Russian half didn’t present any goodwill”. In truth, Paris, London, Berlin and Warsaw agreed with the White House to coordinate their joint response if Russia continues to quickly. Basically the following bundle of European sanctions can be coordinated with the United States, the French president Emmanuel Macron himself laid out in a closing press convention.