Kaja Kallas, EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, has called for steps to be taken to discourage Russia from changing borders by force and pointed out that Russia has invaded 19 countries over the past 100 years.

Source: Kallas in her address at a meeting of foreign ministers from the member states of the Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe in Vienna, as reported by European Pravda

Details: Kallas stressed that the OSCE "didn't come from nowhere" but was the result of painful historical experience.

Quote: "In the last 100 years, Russia has invaded at least 19 countries, many around this table, some as many as three or four times. None of these 19 countries ever invaded or attacked Russia."

Details: The EU's top diplomat pointed out that any peace agreement concerning Ukraine must focus on "how to get concessions from the Russian side so that they stop aggression and the desire to change borders by force".

Quote: "The European Union will stay on the course, as only more pressure on Russia and more support to Ukraine will change the balance and have any hope for peace. It is essential to reduce Russia's capacity to finance its war machine."

Background:

• At the OSCE Ministerial Council meeting in Vienna, Czech Foreign Minister Jan Lipavský said that, against the backdrop of the war in Ukraine, Russia is trying to drive a wedge between the two sides of the Atlantic.
• Polish Foreign Minister Radosław Sikorski said that modern Russia is more repressive and aggressive than the Soviet Union was in the 1970s.

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