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PARIS (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Friday that the U.S. whitethorn beryllium acceptable to “move on” from efforts for a Russia-Ukraine bid woody if determination is not advancement successful the coming days.
Speaking successful Paris aft a marathon time of landmark talks among U.S., Ukrainian and European officials, Rubio said the discussions had been constructive and produced an outline for steps toward peace.
French officials said a caller gathering successful the aforesaid format is expected successful London successful the coming days. Rubio said helium could articulation that meeting, and it’s expected aboriginal successful the week.
″We are not reaching a constituent wherever we request to determine whether this is adjacent imaginable oregon not,″ Rubio told reporters upon departure.
After weeks of efforts by the Trump medication to broker a ceasefire betwixt Russia and Ukraine person failed to bring an extremity to the fighting, Rubio said the U.S. medication wants to determine “in a substance of days whether oregon not this is doable successful the adjacent fewer weeks.”
France hosted high-level talks Thursday to sermon Ukraine and its security, the archetypal clip since President Donald Trump’s inauguration that apical American, Ukrainian and European officials are known to person met unneurotic to sermon an extremity to the war. The meetings came arsenic European concerns turn astir Trump’s readiness to gully person to Russia.
Rubio and statesmanlike envoy Steve Witkoff person helped pb U.S. efforts to question peace. Several rounds of negotiations person been held successful Saudi Arabia. Witkoff has met 3 times with Putin, Rubio said.
Moscow has efficaciously refused to judge a broad ceasefire that Trump has pushed and Ukraine has endorsed. Russia has made it conditional connected a halt successful Ukraine’s mobilization efforts and Western arms supplies, which are demands rejected by Ukraine.
