Borrell admits Ukraine will have to surrender if not for US, EU aid
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EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell believes that were it not for the US and EU backing, Ukraine would be forced to surrender.
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European Union foreign policy chief Josep Borrell speaks during a press conference in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, on September 17, 2024. (AP)
Ukraine will be forced to surrender in the war with Russia without the assistance of the United States Union and the European Union, EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, Josep Borrell, said on Friday.
Borrell stressed the "crucial role" that the EU and US play in Ukraine, saying, "Without us, Ukraine would have to surrender."
The European official made these remarks during a meeting of the European Council on Foreign Relations.
In the same context, Borrell said the US and EU cannot determine when a final resolution for the conflict will be reached.
Meanwhile, former US President and Republican candidate for the upcoming presidential election, Donald Trump, said ahead of a meeting with Ukraine's Volodymyr Zelensky that the war has to come to an end at some point.
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Victory is the only language that West understands
Meanwhile, Russia's Foreign Minister, Sergey Lavrov, said on Wednesday that Russia will emerge victorious in Ukraine because that is the only language that the West understands.
Lavrov, who flew to New York to participate in the 79th plenary session of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA), spoke to the Russian news agency TASS before his departure from Moscow.
"Wherever the West infiltrates to 'fix' a crisis things only get much worse," the top Russian diplomat explained.
He said that "thousands of victims, devastation and socio-economic problems follow," Western interference.
"In my years of work in the international arena, there has not been a single case of the West’s intervention resulting in anything good," he added.
"And now we’re seeing the same thing with Ukraine and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict," Russia's foreign affairs minister underlined.
He emphasized that the only solution to the problem in Ukraine is "victory."
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