Europe tells Russia: Our security architecture is for us to decide

European leaders insist that Europe must help decide its own security future after Russia rejected a broader format for Ukraine peace talks. At the European Political Community Summit in Dublin, French President Emmanuel Macron said Europeans would define their future security. I think that today we have a need, which is that Europe has a clear and united vision of what it wants. German Chancellor Friedrich Maas called on Moscow to hold direct talks with Ukraine, Europe and the United States. It is obvious that there is a willingness to recognize more and more on the Russian side that Europe cannot be spoken about without Europe. European officials attended the latest round of talks in Abu Dhabi but did not meet the Russian delegation. Moscow's chief negotiator Vladimir Medinsky said the conflict reflected a wider crisis in European security and refused to engage with European officials, citing their military and financial support for Kyiv. EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas said the process should be sequenced, first a ceasefire, then a peace settlement, and only afterwards talks on Europe's security arrangements. Estonian Prime Minister Kristin Michel warned that Moscow could use the debate to pursue demands including a reversal of NATO's eastward expansion. Meanwhile, US envoy Jared Kushner traveled to ...to Moscow to seek President Vladimir Putin's backing for European involvement. Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky called the approach strange and urged Europeans to pay close attention. It's talks.