EU leaders hold emergency talks after new signals from Moscow

European leaders held urgent talks on Ukraine following statements by Russia indicating its intention to change its negotiating stance.

According to Ukrinform, Bloomberg reported this.

“European leaders held a call to discuss Ukraine after Russia said it would revise its negotiating position, claiming Ukrainian drones targeted a residence of President Vladimir Putin,” the report said.

The talks were attended by German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk, Finnish President Alexander Stubb, Dutch Prime Minister Dick Schoof, and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen.

“Our work to ensure robust security guarantees continues unabated,” Dutch Prime Minister Schoof said on Tuesday, adding that Kyiv’s allies in the so-called Coalition of the Willing would meet next week.

Participants in the call discussed the situation in eastern Ukraine and measures to strengthen the security of allied countries.

The discussions took place amid intensified diplomacy in recent days. On December 28, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky visited U.S. President Donald Trump’s residence in Florida, after which Trump said there had been “significant progress” toward resolving the war in Ukraine.

As previously reported by Ukrinform, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov claimed that during the night of December 29, Ukraine’s Armed Forces allegedly launched 91 drones at Putin’s state residence in Valdai, in Russia’s Novgorod region. The Russian minister threatened Ukraine with a “retaliatory strike” and said that the targets and timing had already been determined.

President Volodymyr Zelensky called Lavrov’s statement about an alleged drone attack on Putin’s residence in Valdai “yet another lie by the Russian Federation.”

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