The coming week will be “crucial” to determine if Russia and Ukraine are ready to conclude an agreement to end the war, the American diplomacy chief Marco Rubio said on Sunday.
The coming week will be “crucial” To determine if Russia and Ukraine are ready to conclude an agreement to end the war, the US Diplomacy Marco Rubio said on Sunday.
The American president Donald Trump exerts strong pressure to arrive as quickly as possible to a cessation of hostilities in Ukraine, and multiplies the signs of impatience towards kyiv and Moscow.
“Close to an agreement, but not close enough”
He met his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelensky, on Saturday in Rome on the sidelines of the funeral of Pope Francis, and doubts about The will of Russian President Vladimir Putin to settle the conflict in Ukraine.
“We are close (an agreement), but not close enough”Marco Rubio said on Sunday in a channel interview NBC.
“I think this week will be crucial […], We will have to decide if we want to continue to get involved in this company or if it is time to focus on other questions which are just as important, even more important, in some cases “he said.
The American Secretary of State has again judged that there is “Reasons to be optimistic, but there are also reasons to be realistic” On the chances of reaching an agreement, three years after the Russian invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.
“No military solution to this war”
He reiterated the fact that there is “No military solution to this war“. “The only solution to this war is a negotiated regulation” Where each party will have to make concessions, insisted Marco Rubio.
In this regard, the national security advisor Mike Waltz, interviewed on Sunday on the channel Fox Newsagreed that he “There have been a number of discussions on the territory” With kyiv and Moscow, without giving details.
The American president assured the magazine Timein an interview broadcast on Friday, that Russia would keep Crimeaa Ukrainian peninsula which she annexed in 2014 and whose recognition as a Russian territory is mentioned, according to media, in the American proposal for regulation.
Crimea “belongs” In Ukraineand insects Vendredi Volodymyr Zelenky.
