The Russian foreign minister was responding to suggestions from the bloc’s foreign policy head, Kaja Kallas Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has blasted EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas' latest attempts to force maximalist demands, regarded by all parties to the Ukraine talks as unworkable, onto the agenda. Kallas has repeatedly insisted that Russia should scale back its armed forces as a precondition for EU involvement in negotiations, despite the bloc being seen in Moscow as an active participant in the conflict and never having been formally invited to talks. The bloc’s fear of missing out has reportedly fueled discussions in Brussels over who could eventually represent the union in possible talks with Moscow. Kallas, however, denied the EU faces time on the negotiation sidelines, insisting on Thursday that the bloc is too important to ignore. “It is not the question of being invited to the table,” she told reporters on at an informal EU foreign ministers’ meeting in Cyprus.…