EU Diplomat Warns Putin 'Doesn't Want Peace' Amid Trump, Zelenskyy Deal Buzz

European leaders are side-eyeing President Trump's ambition to broker a peace deal between Ukraine and Russia. The EU's top diplomat, Kaja Kallas, straight up said that Vladimir Putin "doesn’t really want peace."

Trump mentioned on Thursday that his administration has been in "very good talks with Russia," but kept mum on any actual progress in ending Russia’s war in Ukraine.

Some NATO allies, along with long-standing U.S. partners, are getting antsy over Trump’s comments about Ukraine, seeing it as the price of Washington cozying up to Moscow.

"The U.S. is talking to Russia, and you have to establish contacts," EU High Representative Kaja Kallas told Fox News Digital. "But right now, Russia doesn't really want peace." 

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She added, "Russia wants us to think that they can wait us out and that time is on their side, but it's not really so. If we increase the pressure, economic pressure on them, but also political pressure, if we support Ukraine so that they would be stronger on the battlefield, then they would also be stronger behind the negotiation table."

This warning drops as Trump and Ukrainian President Zelenskyy are expected to lock in a minerals deal on Friday, which some are hoping could lead to ceasefire talks.

Trump has been touting his knack for getting back into talks with Russia and his success in getting NATO nations to pony up more of the economic burden in backing Ukraine.

NATO allies did boost their defense spending after Russia’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine, but the whiplash from the shift in U.S. policy between the Trump and Biden administrations has left some European nations in a daze.

While some allies, like the U.K., are trying to show Trump that Washington and London are on the same page, other leaders, like the incoming chancellor of Germany, are looking to distance themselves from the U.S., a move Berlin hasn’t made since the end of World War II.

Kallas also reminded the Trump administration of NATO's value, pointing out that Article 5 was only invoked once in the alliance's 76-year history – after the 9/11 attacks on the U.S.

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"In terms of international security, we need to work together with the Americans, who have been our allies for a very, very long time," she said. "And we have been there for America."

Kallas highlighted the sacrifices NATO troops made in helping the U.S. in the War on Terror.

"We, as Estonia, lost as many soldiers per capita as the United States," she said. "We were there for you when you asked for help. 

"That's why it's painful to hear messages that, you know, we don't care about our European allies. It should work both ways," Kallas added. 

The EU chief diplomat has been hammering home the message that the U.S. and European nations can't let Putin divide the West over Ukraine. 

She argued that the U.S. needs to stay a solid partner with Europe in stopping Russian aggression because Putin isn't the only threat to the alliance.

Kallas was in Washington this week to meet with Secretary of State Marco Rubio and lawmakers about issues affecting the EU-U.S. security partnership, though her meeting with Rubio was canned.

The State Department didn’t say why the meeting was canceled, but Kallas is confident communication will keep flowing after positive talks with Rubio at the Munich Security Conference earlier this month.

"There’s a lot to discuss, from Ukraine to the Middle East, also what is happening in Africa, Iran – where we have definitely mutual interest to cooperate – and not to mention China as well," Kallas said.  "There are a lot of topics that we can do [work] together with our transatlantic partners."