The European Union’s (EU) top diplomat Kaja Kallas on Friday said Russian President Vladimir Putin is “laughing” at President Trump’s efforts to broker a peace deal between Russia and Ukraine.

Kallas, the EU’s foreign policy chief, said the president’s push to end the conflict in Eastern Europe is “welcome,” but that the Russian leader is less likely to come to the negotiating table since he “has achieved what he wanted” during last week’s summit in Alaska with U.S. officials.

“Putin is just laughing, not stopping the killing but increasing the killing,” Kallas said during her

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