Overview
- At an extraordinary EU foreign ministers’ meeting on November 26, Foreign Minister Margus Tsahkna said any talks must require Russian troop withdrawal and accountability for war crimes.
- Tsahkna urged the European Commission to quickly propose legal mechanisms to direct frozen Russian assets to support Ukraine’s resilience.
- Newsweek reported that the U.S. administration presented a 28-point peace plan, which European leaders judged too concessionary and used to draft a counterproposal with stronger guarantees and a higher force cap for Ukraine.
- In a Newsweek interview, Tsahkna described recent sabotage and cross-border incidents as Russian hybrid warfare that tests NATO members and could approach questions tied to Article Five.
- Arguing that the war’s lessons must shape policy, he called for increased European defense investment focused on the right capabilities informed by Ukraine’s battlefield innovations.