{"id":20072,"date":"2025-10-21T12:38:38","date_gmt":"2025-10-21T12:38:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=20072"},"modified":"2025-10-21T12:38:51","modified_gmt":"2025-10-21T12:38:51","slug":"eu-pushes-back-on-trumps-demand-ukraine-cede-territory-to-putin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=20072","title":{"rendered":"EU pushes back on Trump\u2019s demand Ukraine cede territory to Putin"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>&#8220;Ukraine shouldn\u2019t have to give up territory as part of a peace deal with Russia, the EU\u2019s top diplomat Kaja Kallas said on Monday after U.S. President Donald Trump pushed Kyiv to give up land to end the war.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIf we just give away the territories, then this gives a message to everybody that you can just use force against your neighbors and get what you want,\u201d Kallas told journalists in Luxembourg after a meeting of foreign ministers. \u201cI think this is very dangerous. That\u2019s why we have the international law in place, [so] that nobody does that.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWhat you can conquer back is one question, but the other question is also what do you recognize as the territory of another country?\u201d said Kallas, a former prime minister of Estonia. \u201cI come from a country that was occupied for 50 years, but [a] majority of the countries in the world didn\u2019t recognize them to be Russian territories. And that also meant a lot.\u201d&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/eu-kaja-kallas-pushes-back-on-donald-trump-demand-ukraine-cede-territory-to-russia-vladimir-putin\">https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/eu-kaja-kallas-pushes-back-on-donald-trump-demand-ukraine-cede-territory-to-russia-vladimir-putin<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Ukraine shouldn\u2019t have to give up territory as part of a peace deal with Russia, the EU\u2019s top diplomat Kaja Kallas said on Monday after U.S. President Donald Trump pushed Kyiv to give up land to end the war.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf we just give away the territories, then this gives a message to everybody that you can just use force against your neighbors and get what you want,\u201d Kallas told journalists in Luxembourg after a meeting of foreign ministers. \u201cI think this is very dangerous. That\u2019s why we have the international law in place, [so] that nobody does that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p> \u201cWhat you can conquer back is one question, but the other question is also what do you recognize as the territory of another country?\u201d said Kallas, a former prime minister of Estonia. \u201cI come from a country that was occupied for 50 years, but [a] majority of the countries in the world didn\u2019t recognize them to be Russian territories. And that also meant a lot.\u201d&#8221;  <\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/eu-kaja-kallas-pushes-back-on-donald-trump-demand-ukraine-cede-territory-to-russia-vladimir-putin\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[552,390,221,924,728,923,272,355,314,1545,316,315,867,170,311,158],"class_list":["post-20072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-conflict","tag-diplomacy","tag-donald-trump","tag-eastern-europe","tag-europe","tag-european-union","tag-foreign-affairs","tag-foreign-policy","tag-international-relations","tag-invasion","tag-putin","tag-russia","tag-territory","tag-trump","tag-ukraine","tag-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20072","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20072"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20072\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20074,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20072\/revisions\/20074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}