Trump will give up peace talks in Ukraine “days” without progress, Rubio warns

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The highest American diplomat said that President Donald Trump will abandon an attempt to negotiate a peace agreement between Russia and Ukraine within days “unless he sees clear signs that a deal is possible.

The US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said on Friday that Washington will not continue Ukraine She speaks for “weeks or months” and will focus on “other priorities” if there is no penetration soon.

“If this is not possible, if we are so far away that this will not happen, I think the president is at a point where he will say, well, we have finished,” Rubio told reporters on Friday.

His remarks came after a day meeting in Paris on Thursday, hosted by French President Emmanuel Macron, who was attended by an American delegation, including Rubio Steve Witkev’s special envoy, along with officials from Ukraine, the United Kingdom and Germany.

“We will not continue to fly around the world and do the meeting after the meeting after the meeting if progress is not made,” said Rubio. He said that the United States wants to discover “within days, not weeks”, if it is peace to be achieved, adding that Trump “felt strongly” that the conversations could not continue.

The Paris gathering aims at jumping talks that stopped since Trump’s return with Russian President Vladimir Putin in February and pressed Ukrainian leader Folodimir Zellinski to negotiate a settlement. Ukraine has said since it was open to a temporary ceasefire, but Russia has been late.

“If both sides are serious, we want help, but if it does not happen, we will only move to other topics on equal footsteps if not more important for the United States,” said Rubio.

Ukraine said on Thursday it was An initial agreement signed With the United States sharing its mineral and energy resources, which was a major demand from Trump, who sees it as a way to pay the United States for billions in military aid.

Such an agreement was about to sign in February, but then he went out of his path from an argument between Trump and Zellinski in the Oval Office.

Rubio said that the talks in Paris were “very positive” and that the participation of European countries was constructive. He added that another meeting in a similar coordination will be held next week in London to allow the United States to obtain Russian and Ukraine inputs to make a decision on its positions.