Europe's peace plan 'doesn't suit' Russia

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

52% : Writing for Russia's oldest news agency TASS, analyst Andrey Surzhanski described Europe's swift response to the US peace plan as "a clear sign of the anxiety into which the EU hornet's nest has plunged".
47% : His remarks came after EU leaders responded with their own ceasefire proposal for Ukraine, following the leak of the US draft last week.
46% : Senator Valentina Matviyenko, Mr Putin's long-time ally, told newspaper Moskovskiy Komsomoletz that the EU "turns any peace plan into a plan for continuing war", accusing the bloc of belonging to the "global party of war".
39% : In his piece for Rossiyskaya Gazeta - Russia's government official newspaper, banned in the EU in 2024 for "manipulating with information and distorting facts" - political commentator Fyodor Lukyanov praised Washington's "realistic approach" to a conflict of "high but not existential significance" - "at least not for external parties.
21% : She went on to claim EU leaders lack legitimacy compared to Donald Trump, arguing that the union's policy "of opposing Trump - a legitimate president who won the election with a clear majority ... is being determined by unelected European officials".

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