Paris meeting aims to retake initiative on talks about Ukraine’s future as US and Russian delegates prepare to meet
Emmanuel Macron will press ahead with a Paris summit of European defence powers to try to retake the initiative and demand the US ends its lock-out of Europe from the talks on Ukraine’s future.
With the US and Russia due to send high powered delegations for talks in Riyadh this week, the first such meetings in two years, there are fears in Europe that Russia will relaunch its plan for imposed Ukrainian neutrality and a joint US-Russia carve up with agreed spheres of influence.
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