The European Union will never recognize the Russian-occupied Crimean peninsula as legally Russian, the bloc’s top diplomat Kaja Kallas told Agence France-Presse (AFP) on April 22.

Kallas’ comments come in response to reports that the recognition of Crimea as Russian territory is being considered as part of a U.S.-backed proposal to end the war in Ukraine.

“Crimea is Ukraine,” Kallas told the AFP.

  • jaxxed@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    10 hours ago

    I think that the EU, Nato and the Ukraine armed forces would be best served with equipment and intel support, without the addition of foreign troops. If they were stocked to the gills, and well served with intel, then there would be no questions about occupation, despite current morale and troop concerns…