“If you are really firm and you are not giving them what they want, it’s more probable that you won’t have more wars,” she added, in a possible suggestion that Western support for Kyiv would make China think twice about a move on Taiwan.
Kallas, a former Estonian prime minister and Russia hawk, took up the post of the EU’s foreign policy chief on Dec. 1.
She added Russia legally had a “legitimate claim” for its assets seized by the West since its invasion of Ukraine in early 2022 but that the bloc should use the frozen cash to reconstruct Ukraine before handing back whatever remains.
“But I doubt there is anything left over,” she added.