Paris – The Secretary of State of the United States Marco Rubio said on Friday that the United States may « continue » to try to assure you Russia-Ukraine Peace agreement if there is no progress in the coming days. The months of efforts of the White House have failed to end the fighting, despite the repeated promises of President Trump before taking the position he would use his skills as a negotiator to end the war immediately.
Rubio spoke in Paris after the leading talks between the United States, Ukrainian and European officials produced schemes for steps towards peace and seemed to advance in the long term. A new meeting is expected next week in London and Rubio suggested that it could be decisive to determine if the Trump administration continues its participation.
« We now reach a point where we have to decide whether this is possible or not, » Rubio told journalists on the way out. « Because if not, I think we will only continue. »
« It’s not our war, » Rubio said. « We have other priorities to focus on us. » He said that the United States administration wants to decide « in a matter of days. »
His observations contrasted strongly with the Biden administration’s stance, during which the Antony Blinken state was talked about warned Shortly after the war he began that Russia Autocratic President Vladimir Putin was determined to « reconstitute the Soviet Empire. He would like to reaffirm a sphere of influence on neighboring countries that were formerly part of the Soviet bloc. And the short film of this would like to ensure that all these countries are somehow neutral. »
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy also does warnedincluded in Several interviews with CBS NewsThat Putin intends to expand the borders of Russia by force and to break the bonds of forged security among Western democracies during World War II, of which the NATO alliance led by the United States has been the most tangible.
« For him, we are a satellite of the Russian Federation. At present, we are Kazakhstan, then Baltic States, then Poland, then Germany. At least half of Germany, » Zelenskyy said in Charlie of Agata News News ago. « This aggression and the army of Putin can come to Europe, and the citizens of the United States, the United States soldiers, will have to protect Europe because they are NATO members. »
Zelenskyy called the invasion of Russia a war « against democracy, against values, against the whole world, » recognizing even that some of the West could be tired of hearing this message « , but they are only tired that they are not at war, who do not know what the war is and they have never lost their children. »
« If we do not stay firm, it will move forward more, » Zelenskyy reiterated in an interview with 60 minutes this month. « This is not just leisure speculation; the threat is real. Putin’s ultimate goal is to relive the Russian empire and to recover the territories currently under NATO protection. Given all this, I think it could be increased in a world war. »
Trump says « we have a mineral agreement » with Ukraine
Rubio’s comments on Friday came hours after the United States and Ukraine apparently approached an agreement delayed to grant us access to Ukraine’s broad mineral resourceswhich has been intertwined with the peace push of President Trump.
« We have a mineral agreement, » Mr Trump said on Thursday, and Ukraine’s Minister of Economy said on Friday that the two countries had signed a memorandum of intentions ahead of a possible more complete agreement.
The agreement, which Ukrainian Minister of Economy Yuliia Svydenko said he signed with the Secretary of the United States Treasury, Scott Bessent, is expected to open the way to important investments, the modernization of infrastructure and long -term cooperation.
The work towards the mineral agreement had stopped in February after a Controversial oval office meeting Between Mr. Trump, the Vice President JD Vance and the Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. Negotiations have been resumed since then.
Rubio in dialogue with Russia and Europe
Despite apparently growing his impatience with peace efforts, Rubio called the Constructive Thursday Paris talks. « No one rejected anything, nobody got up from the table or went away. »
Rubio did not distinguish Russia or Ukraine as a blockade of peace efforts. He said that Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov reported about the schemes that arose when they spoke after the Paris talks, but would not say how Lavrov reacted.
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When asked about Rubio’s comments on Friday, Kremlin’s spokesman Dmitry Peskov told journalists that « quite complex » negotiations were in progress between Russia and the United States that he did not give details, but said that no direct conversations were scheduled between Mr. Trump and President Russian Vladimir Putin in the coming days.
« Russia is striving to resolve this conflict, to secure its own interests and is open to dialogue. We continue to do this, » he said.
In his call to call Rubio, Kremlin said that Lavrov had confirmed « Moscow’s preparation to continue working with his north -American colleagues to reliably eliminate the roots of the Ukrainian crisis. »
Putin and his deputies have constantly stated that these fundamental causes are the actions of Zelenskyy and the expansion east of NATO: misleading narratives that Mr. Trump himself has been thick sometimes Regarding the large -scale invasion, Putin was launched on February 24, 2022.
After weeks of tension with European allies, Rubio told Paris journalists that European negotiators were useful. « The United Kingdom and France and Germany can help us move the ball over it. »
During a Friday meeting with the Italian Prime Minister, Giorgia Meloni, in Rome, Vice President JD Vance also spoke of the ongoing negotiations with Ukraine and Russia, saying that they were not « pre-jump, but we are optimistic that we hope this war, this very brutal war. »
European The worries growHowever, on the preparation of Mr. Trump to bring in Russia. These talks have been the first time since its inauguration that the main North -American, Ukrainian and Europeans officials met to discuss the war, which has been the largest security challenge in Europe since World War II.
The meetings addressed the guarantees of hypothetical security for Ukraine in the future, but Rubio would not discuss any possible role of the United States in this. Some types of North -American support in Ukraine are considered crucial to ensure that Russia would not attack if and when a peace agreement is reached.
Rubio and Presidential Sent Steve Witkoff have helped to lead the United States to seek peace, and Witkoff has met with Putin three times, said Rubio. Several rounds of negotiations have been held in Saudi Arabia.
Moscow has effectively refused to accept a complete cessation that Mr. Trump has pushed and Ukraine has approved. Russia has been conditioned by arrest in Ukraine mobilization efforts and western weapons supplies, which are Ukraine -rejected demands.
Russian fatal strikes in Ukraine continue
Russia, meanwhile, has maintained a series of fatal strikes in Ukrainian cities Missiles killed at least 34 during palm Sunday Celebrations in the northern city of Sumy.
One person died and 103 others, including eight children, were injured when Russia struck Kharkiv, the second largest city in Ukraine, at the beginning of Friday, reported its mayor Ihor Terekhov. He said that the cluster ammunition reached a « densely populated » neighborhood four times.
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Russian drones also headed for a bakery in Sumy, less than a week after the deadly death of Palmera Sunday, killing a client and injuring an employee, said the Regional Prosecutor’s Office. The photos published by the agency showed rows of Easter pies stacked inside a devastated building, covered with thick dust, like a large hole wrapped on the wall behind and accumulated on the ground.
Last Sunday’s strike in Sumy, with a result of mass victims, was the second large -scale missile attack to claim civilian lives in just over a week. About 20 people, including nine children, died on April 4, while the missiles hit Kryvyi Rih’s hometown of Zelenskyy.
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