Kaja Kallas speaks to the press as she arrives to attend the EU Summit in Brussels on Oct. 16, 2026.Nicolas Tucat/AFP via Getty Images

Putin’s potential G20 comeback risks normalizing Russian war crimes, says Kallas – POLITICO

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Vladimir Putin’s possible return to a G20 summit in Florida in December risks normalizing Russia’s war crimes in Ukraine, the EU’s foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas said on Saturday.

“Normalizing Russia coming back to these international fora is just normalizing war crimes being committed every day now” in Ukraine, Kallas said in an interview with Bloomberg TV.

She added that Russia’s war in Ukraine conflicts “with U.N charter principles that all these countries around the table have signed up to.”