Online call between EU ministers and US negotiators disrupted by technical problems
European foreign ministers who had gathered in Brussels on 15 December for a meeting of the EU Foreign Affairs Council were unable to hold a planned online conversation with US President Donald Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner and Special Envoy Steve Witkoff due to technical problems.
Source: Kaja Kallas, EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, as reported by European Pravda
Details: Kallas said Witkoff and Kushner had planned to address the EU Foreign Affairs Council on 15 December, but technical issues prevented this.
"I have actually nothing much to report from the discussions with Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner as I don't know if it was a cyber attack, but definitely [the] technology didn't work correctly," Kallas said after the meeting.
She added that as a result, they "didn't really have good discussions on the reparations loan".
Background:
- European Pravda had previously reported that Witkoff and Kushner had planned to address the EU Foreign Affairs Council meeting in Brussels on 15 December via video link.
- Earlier, AFP reported that during talks in Berlin on Sunday 14 December, Witkoff and Kushner pressed Ukrainian representatives to give up the part of Donbas still under Kyiv's control.
- Following this, Ukraine's Deputy Foreign Minister Serhii Kyslytsia urged the public not to trust anonymous sources on the US position in the negotiations.
- Rustem Umierov, Secretary of Ukraine's National Security and Defence Council, said he expects that Kyiv and Washington will have agreed on common positions by the end of the day, bringing peace closer.
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