{"id":466175,"date":"2026-09-28T15:55:47","date_gmt":"2026-09-28T13:55:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/2026\/09\/28\/kallas-lincontro-wadephul-lavrov-dimostra-che-mosca-non-e-interessata-a-pace\/"},"modified":"2026-09-28T16:57:19","modified_gmt":"2026-09-28T14:57:19","slug":"kallas-the-wadephul-lavrov-meeting-shows-that-moscow-is-not-interested-in-peace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/2026\/09\/28\/kallas-the-wadephul-lavrov-meeting-shows-that-moscow-is-not-interested-in-peace\/","title":{"rendered":"Kallas: &#8220;The Wadephul\u2013Lavrov meeting shows that Moscow is not interested in peace&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Brussels \u2013 \u201cThese talks show that Russia is not at all interested in peace. Otherwise, it would not treat its negotiating partner in this way during negotiations or meetings.\u201d This was the comment made by the EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, Kaja Kallas, at a press conference following the EU Defence Council, in response to a question regarding <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/german-foreign-minister-says-lavrov-meeting-driven-by-russia-security-concerns-2026-09-27\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">at the meeting between the German Foreign Minister, Johann Wadephul, and his Russian counterpart, Sergei Lavrov,<\/a> on Saturday (26 September) on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly in New York. It was the first meeting between a German and a Russian minister since Moscow\u2019s invasion of Ukraine began, and it yielded no results. \u201cRussia makes derisive comments,\u201d Kallas noted. \u201cWhat is interesting, or at least important, is that <strong>there are many countries outside Europe that say<\/strong>: <strong>we need to talk to the Russians and then we\u2019ll reach a result,<\/strong>\u201d she continued. \u201cNow, first and foremost, Russia must demonstrate that it is interested in peace by stopping its attacks on civilians \u2013 something it is not doing \u2013 and then it must talk to Ukraine, because this is a matter between Ukraine and Russia. Everyone else can facilitate this process, but ultimately it is up to them to reach an agreement,\u201d Kallas emphasised.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brussels \u2013 \u201cThese talks show that Russia is not at all interested in peace. Otherwise, it would not treat its negotiating partner in this way during negotiations or meetings.\u201d This was the comment made by the EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, Kaja Kallas, at a press conference following the EU Defence [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":466163,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"format":"standard","override":[{"template":"1","parallax":"1","fullscreen":"1","layout":"right-sidebar","sidebar":"default-sidebar","second_sidebar":"default-sidebar","sticky_sidebar":"1","share_position":"top","share_float_style":"share-monocrhome","show_featured":"1","show_post_meta":"1","show_post_author":"1","show_post_author_image":"1","show_post_date":"1","post_date_format":"default","post_date_format_custom":"Y\/m\/d","show_post_category":"1","show_post_reading_time":"0","post_reading_time_wpm":"300","post_calculate_word_method":"str_word_count","show_zoom_button":"0","zoom_button_out_step":"2","zoom_button_in_step":"3","show_post_tag":"1","show_prev_next_post":"1","show_popup_post":"1","show_comment_section":"1","number_popup_post":"1","show_author_box":"0","show_post_related":"1","show_inline_post_related":"0"}],"image_override":[{"single_post_thumbnail_size":"crop-500","single_post_gallery_size":"crop-500"}],"trending_post_position":"meta","trending_post_label":"Trending","sponsored_post_label":"Sponsored by","disable_ad":"0","subtitle":""},"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_override_counter":{"view_counter_number":"0","share_counter_number":"0","like_counter_number":"0","dislike_counter_number":"0"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[30809,25774],"tags":[34031,35945,31897,28501,33394,30781,35946],"class_list":["post-466175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-defence-security","category-in-brief","tag-kallas","tag-lavrov","tag-mosca-en-2","tag-pace-en","tag-ue","tag-ukraine-in-2","tag-wadephul"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466175","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=466175"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466175\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":466176,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466175\/revisions\/466176"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/466163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=466175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=466175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=466175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}