US President Barack Obama said Russia stood “alone” on the Ukraine crisis as he paid his first ever visit to the European Union headquarters in Brussels, cementing Western opposition to the takeover of Crimea. Viewed as the most important trip to Europe by a US president in years because of the crisis over Crimea, it was Obama’s first-ever summit talks in Brussels with the EU’s top officials, EU Council and European Commission presidents Herman Van Rompuy and Jose Manuel Barroso. Russia increasingly “stands alone” on the international scene and had “miscalculated” in thinking it could drive a “wedge” between Washington and Brussels, Obama said.
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