Forty-seven European politicians, including five from Lithuania, have written to US President Donald Trump, condemning attempts to pressure Ukraine and stating that pandering to Russia and attempts to pressure Ukraine are "morally reprehensible and an outrage against human decency."
“Any appeasement of Russia as the aggressor, any attempts to pressure Ukraine as the victim of this aggression, is morally reprehensible and an outrage against human decency. To bow before Russia is to abandon shared values and plunge the free world into anarchy and chaos,” the letter reads.
The letter was signed by five Lithuanian politicians, including three members of the main opposition party Homeland Union – Lithuanian Christian Democrats: Laurynas Kasčiūnas, Ingrida Šimonytė and Žygimantas Pavilionis; Liberal Movement MP Viktorija Čmilytė-Nielsen; and Lithuanian MEP Dainius Žalimas.
The appeal follows the publication of a 28-point US plan to end the war in Ukraine, which Kyiv and several European leaders have criticised as effectively favouring Russia’s demands.
The peace plan, described by Trump as non-final, was discussed by US, Ukrainian and European officials in Geneva on Sunday, with the United States calling the talks “a significant step forward.”
Both sides pledged to continue working on joint proposals in the coming days.
Under the proposal, Ukraine would cede part of its eastern territories, reduce the size of its army, commit not to seek NATO membership, and allow no deployment of Western peacekeepers if a settlement is reached.
The European politicians' letter also stressed that “strong American leadership is the only hope. A cowed America can never be great again; a cowed America can never be first.”
“Russia is waging a brutal and illegal war of unprovoked aggression against Ukraine, Europe and, by extension, the United States as leader of the free world. The goal is to seize territory in violation of international law, obliterate Ukraine’s statehood, re-establish hegemony over Europe and overthrow the US-led rules-based order,” the letter reads.
“The US, Ukraine and the free world must win; Russia and its axis of evil allies must lose,” it underlined.
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