Russian lawmaker says Ukraine can only count on improving ties with Russia & US

3/3/2025 6:08

An influential Russian

parliamentarian dismissed a summit of European leaders in London

on Sunday for producing no plan to settle the war in Ukraine and

said Kyiv's only hope for the future was an improvement in ties

between Moscow and Washington.



Konstantin Kosachev, writing on the Telegram messaging app,

derided the outcome of the London meeting as "a desperate

attempt to pass off as success the failure of a 10-year policy

of inciting Ukraine towards Russia by the same Great Britain

and, until recently, the United States".



"Europe has no plan," wrote Kosachev, head of the Foreign

Affairs Committee of Russia's upper house of parliament.



"And if Ukraine should count on something, it can only be on

progress (if there is any to come) in Russian-American

relations."



He said Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy and British

Prime Minister Keir Starmer, who hosted the meeting, "cannot

fail to understand this".



Former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, writing on X

before the end of the London gathering, dismissed it as a

"coven...to swear allegiance to the Nazi nobodies in Kiev" and a

"shameful sight."



Starmer, speaking after the meeting, said participants had

agreed to draw up a Ukraine peace plan to take to the United

States -- two days after Zelenskiy's meeting in Washington with

President Donald Trump broke down in acrimonious exchanges.



Starmer said Britain, Ukraine, France and some other nations

would form a "coalition of the willing" to produce a plan.



Zelenskiy said he felt strong support from Europe. He said

he could salvage his relationship with Trump but that talks

needed to continue in a different format.