US State Secretary Rubio: this week will be critical to decide on further US efforts regarding war
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Sun, 27 Apr 2025 17:23:00 +0300
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio has said that the coming week will be critically important for the United States to decide whether to continue its efforts to end the war between Russia and Ukraine.
Source Rubio in an interview with NBC News, as reported by European Pravda Quote I think this is going to be a very critical week.
This week is going to be a very important week in which we have to make a determination about whether this is an endeavour that we want to continue to be involved in, or if its time to focus on some other issues that are equally, if not more, important.
Details The secretary of state said the prospects for reaching some form of agreement to end the RussiaUkraine war are closer in general than theyve been any time in the last three years, but its still not there.
He declined to specify how much longer the Trump administration is willing to give Ukraine and Russia to reach a peace agreement.
I always think its silly to set a specific date The president has dedicated a tremendous amount of time and energy to this, and we think we have brought the sides closer than they have been in a very long time, but were not there yet, Rubio said.
He noted that there are reasons to be optimistic, but there are reasons to be realistic of course as well.
Background On 26 April, President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy and US President Donald Trump briefly met in the Vatican, where dozens of world leaders had gathered to pay their final respects to Pope Francis.
Zelenskyy stated that the meeting with Trump had the potential to become historic.
The White House also described the meeting as very productive.
On the same day, Trump criticised recent Russian strikes on Ukrainian cities and expressed doubt that Kremlin leader Vladimir Putin genuinely wants to end the war, also threatening him with sanctions.
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