THE PEOPLE’S PRESS: The splintering unelected EU cliques and the United Kingdom need the Ukraine conflict and the empty threat of a Russian invasion to distract from the looming crisis at home.

Brussels and London, in collaboration with the ‘on-message’ mainstream media, are defying the people’s passion for peace by consistently seeking to derail direct US-Russia talks.

The EU and UK are trying to disrupt Russia-US talks and prolong the Ukraine conflict to distract public attention away from domestic economic problems, President Vladimir Putin’s aide, Kirill Dmitriev, discloses.

There have been numerous attempts by Kiev’s European backers to derail talks between Moscow and Washington. Between Presidents Putin and Donald Trump in particular, Dmitriev told journalists on Friday as he arrived in the US for meetings with American officials.

He accused the UK and EU of blocking many attempts to resolve the conflict, saying London and Brussels want it to continue because the British economy is in dire straits, and so is the EU’s.

‘It is important for them to maintain the image of Russia as an enemy,’ Dmitriev said, adding that Moscow will continue its dialogue with Washington to make its position clear.

He said Kiev is acting at the request of the British and Europeans, who want the conflict to continue.

‘We see that it is Ukraine that is dragging out the negotiations. It is Ukraine that is not willing to resolve the issues that have accumulated and need solving,’ Dmitriev stated. He accused Kiev of disrupting the dialogue at the behest of its Western backers.

Dmitriev’s remarks followed the postponement of a planned summit between Putin and Trump in Budapest.

The presidents had agreed during a phone call last week to meet in the Hungarian capital at a later date.

On Wednesday, the zigzagging Trump called off the summit under pressure from their European and UK partners. Lamey, the White House simpered, ‘It is not completely off the table.’  The Kremlin also stated that the meeting is postponed rather than cancelled.

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Earlier this week, the Financial Times reported that ’no one’ in the EU likes the prospect of a Trump-Putin summit.

The Kremlin also said on Friday that Kiev and its Western backers are behind the unduly long delay in peace talks. You can share this story on social media: TELL US WHAT YOU THINK

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