Prominent Russian lawmakers have criticized Sunday’s summit of European leaders in London, dismissing it as a fruitless exercise with no real strategy for resolving the Ukraine war.
Taking to the Telegram messaging app, Konstantin Kosachev, head of the Foreign Affairs Committee in Russia’s upper house of parliament, scoffed at the outcome.
He argued that Ukraine’s only real hope lay in the possibility of improved Russian-American relations, not in Europe’s empty gestures.
Kosachev condemned the London summit as a desperate attempt to mask the failure of a decade-long Western policy that, in his view, pushed Ukraine into confrontation with Russia.
“Europe has no plan. And if Ukraine should count on something, it can only be on progress (if there is any to come) in Russian-American relations,” he wrote.
He further suggested that both Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and British Prime Minister Keir Starmer, the summit’s host, must be well aware of this reality.
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Leonid Slutsky, chairman of the lower house’s Committee on International Affairs, was even more scathing. He insisted that the meeting could not salvage Zelenskyy’s political standing, especially after his tense and unsuccessful negotiations in Washington with U.S. President Donald Trump.
“The London summit will not save the ringleader of the Ukrainian Nazis. Zero results, a failed attempt to restore the clown’s political reputation after his resounding failure in Washington,” Slutsky declared on Telegram.
Meanwhile, former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, now a senior security official, preemptively dismissed the summit’s significance even before it concluded. Posting on X, he described the gathering as a shameful spectacle, likening it to a coven where leaders reaffirmed their allegiance to what he called “Nazi nobodies” in Kiev.