The President of the United States Donald Trump will no longer try to mediate a peace agreement between Russia and Ukraine within a few days unless there are clear signs that an agreement could be closed, said the United States Secretary of State Rubio on Friday.
“We will not continue with this effort for weeks and months. So we have to determine very quickly now, and I’m talking about days, regardless of whether it is possible in the coming weeks,” said Rubio in Paris after meeting European and Ukrainian leaders.
“If it is not possible, if we are so far away that this will not happen, then I think the president is probably in a point where he will say: ‘Well, we’re done.'”
There have been no immediate comments from Paris, London, Berlin or Kiev on Rubio’s declaration. Three European diplomatic sources told Reuters that Rubio’s comments reflect the growing frustration of the White House in relation to Russian intransigence to end the war.
The spokesman for the Kremlin Dmitry Peskov said that there have already been progress in a peace agreement, but contacts with Washington are difficult. He said that Russia is struggling to resolve the conflict and at the same time guarantee its interests. Moscow is still open to dialogue with the United States, he added.
Rubio’s threats arrived in signs of some progress in US negotiations with Ukraine.
Trump said on Thursday that he hopes to sign a mineral agreement with Kiev next week after an attempt in February failed after the clash of Empodymyr Zelenskiy of the Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskiy with Trump and vice -president JD Vance.
The conversations in Paris on Thursday were the first substantial conversations, of high level and face to face on the peace initiative of Trump that included European powers. Rubio said that a peace structure of the United States he presented had an “encouraging reception”. Zelenskiy’s office considered constructive and positive conversations.
It was not clear why Rubio’s tone changed so radically during the night. However, their comments on Friday underline the growing frustrations to the White House with the lack of progress in efforts to solve an increasing list of geopolitical challenges.
During his election campaign, Trump promised to end the war in Ukraine in his first 24 hours in the White House. He moderated this declaration by entering into office, suggesting an agreement until April or May to increase obstacles.
He pushed both sides to be at the negotiation table, threatening the hardest sanctions to Russia or at the end of dollars use billions of billions of dollars in Kiev.
Both Ukraine and Russia attended negotiations with American brokers in Saudi Arabia, which caused a partial fire, but nothing more. In the meantime, the war has continued, including a recent Russian missile attack that hit Sumy in Northern Ukraine – Eastern, killing 35 people – a Trump attack called “Error”.
If Washington leaves, the efforts for intermediate peace will probably fail because no other nation is able to exercise similar pressure on Moscow and Kiev.
Other impacts are not clear. The United States could keep its current conflict policy unchanged, maintaining sanctions for Russia and the United States help in Kiev. Alternatively, Trump could decide to suspend payments in Ukraine.
Rubio said he talked to the Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov after “constructive” conversations in Paris and informed him of “some of the elements” of the United States peace structure.
Russian President Vladimir Putin said he wanted Ukraine to renounce his ambitions to join the organization of the western military alliance of the North Atlantic Treaty (born), which Russia controls all four Ukrainian regions that claimed as them and that the dimensions of the Ukrainian army are limited. Kiev says that these requirements are equivalent to requesting their surrender.
Source: Terra
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