EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell
Meanwhile, Poland strips Zelensky of its highest honour over naming of military unit after WWII far-right paramilitaries
RUSSIA’S roadmap for simmering down security tensions with Nato is “unacceptable,” EU foreign affairs chief Josep Borrell declared today.
Russia hopes to halt Nato militarisation of Ukraine, where Western forces have gathered. President Vladimir Putin fears the US-led war machine plans to retake the breakaway Donetsk and Lugansk regions.
But Mr Borrell told Die Welt newspaper that the bid to stop the EU and Nato’s eastward expansion “are a purely Russian agenda with completely unacceptable conditions.”
The defence secretary’s resignation reveals not a split over principle but a dispute over pace of military spending, as Britain’s political Establishment unites behind deeper Nato commitments, argues NICK WRIGHT
Washington plays innocent bystander while pouring weapons and intelligence into Ukraine, just as it enables the Gaza genocide — but every US escalation leaves Ukraine weaker than the neutrality deal rejected in 2022, argue MEDEA BENJAMIN and NICOLAS JS DAVIES
