Recently, the US government has been pressuring EU member states to reject the plan to use Russia's frozen assets to finance Ukraine at the EU summit to be held from the 18th to the 19th. The report said that Trump administration officials circumvented the EU leadership and had direct secret contacts with the governments of EU member states, causing Italy, Bulgaria, Malta, and the Czech Republic to join the opposition. “They want to weaken us,” said a senior EU official who knows the relationship between Europe and the US and preparations for this summit.

Recently, the US government has been pressuring EU member states to reject the plan to use Russia's frozen assets to finance Ukraine at the EU summit to be held from the 18th to the 19th. The report said that Trump administration officials circumvented the EU leadership and had direct secret contacts with the governments of EU member states, causing Italy, Bulgaria, Malta, and the Czech Republic to join the opposition. “They want to weaken us,” said a senior EU official who knows the relationship between Europe and the US and preparations for this summit.