And earlier this week, the European Commission said a plane carrying its top leader Ursula Von der Leyen was targeted with GPS navigation jamming while landing in Bulgaria on Sunday and that Russia was suspected. Moscow blasted the claim as “fake” and a symptom of European “paranoia.”

COMMENT: Europe’s every move to try and force Putin into a peace deal is dogged by the US president’s flip-flopping on Russia, writes world affairs editor Sam Kiley