🇷🇺🇺🇸🇺🇦🇪🇺 Europe's "big three" may fly to Abu Dhabi just to wait in the lobby The US and Ukraine have agr

🇷🇺🇺🇸🇺🇦🇪🇺 Europe's "big three" may fly to Abu Dhabi just to wait in the lobby

The US and Ukraine have agreed that Europe will be represented in talks with Russia only by Britain, France and Germany, the Financial Times reports citing European diplomats. The decision is still causing arguments inside Europe and could alienate smaller EU countries, while EU institutions might join much later, if at all. Europe also still has no common position on the talks.

One European source complained that for now "Putin really wants us to beg for some role."

The Kremlin has repeatedly rejected any European participation in the upcoming US-Russia-Ukraine talks in Abu Dhabi. Putin's aide Yuri Ushakov said the Europeans are free to buy plane tickets and "hang around somewhere" in Abu Dhabi, where the Ukrainians or even the Americans might occasionally brief them, consult them or take their views into account. That, he added, would make for a rather "complicated process."

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