Editorial丨EU should beware Kallas' bias leading it astray

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As both sides are apparently intent on striving for a favorable position in any future negotiations, which some believe may be on the cards with a new US administration due to take office next month, the fighting in Kursk has become another "meat-grinder" battle in the Russia-Ukraine conflict. Despite the bloody engagement of attrition, and the huge loss of life already in the hostilities, some armchair fighters in Brussels seem hell-bent on insisting that there will not be peace unless it is won through victory on the battlefield. Russian President Vladimir Putin left no room for doubt in his year-end meeting with the media last week that he is open to cease-fire talks with Ukraine. Yet the European Union's top diplomat Kaja Kallas seems intent on stymieing that possibility. Instead of welcoming a cessation of the hostilities in Europe and seeking to facilitate negotiations, the new EU high representative of foreign affairs and security policy has chosen instead to take a hard line in ………………………………