"Impossible Without Russia": Kremlin Rejects Europe's Ukraine Peace Strategy & Warns Chancellor Merz

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The Kremlin has formally dismissed the European Union's strategy for Ukraine's post-war security architecture as a political "dead end" following statements by German Chancellor Friedrich Merz that explicitly ruled out a Russian role in negotiating future settlement guarantees. Speaking to reporters on Tuesday, Russian presidential spokesperson Dmitry Peskov warned that if European leaders maintain their firm stance on sidelining Moscow, they will effectively disqualify European nations from participating in any viable future peace process. The diplomatic friction comes immediately after Chancellor Merz declared at the "Coalition of the Willing" summit in Paris that Ukraine's long-term security architecture would be decided exclusively by Kyiv and its Western partners, bypassing Moscow entirely. The Kremlin heavily criticized this approach, maintaining that lasting territorial and regional security guarantees cannot realistically be achieved by excluding one of the conflict's principal parties, accusing Europe of prioritizing further military mobilization over diplomacy.