# Kallas claims US has been ‘trying to push Ukraine into surrender’ for 18 months

https://mins.news/en/item/108375

- TASS, 2026-10-20 18:58 UTC
- Politics
- Original: https://tass.com/world/2204933

> EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas claimed that US negotiators had spent nearly a year and a half trying to push Ukraine into surrender, and said European support had kept Ukraine from surrendering. She said the EU diplomatic service was formulating its “maximum demands” for Russia.

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