War in Ukraine: the United States evokes a “crucial week” for its participation in negotiations

Next week it will be “crucial” to determine if Russia and Ukraine are ready to conclude an agreement to end the war, US Chief of Diplomacy Marco Rubio said this Sunday, April 27.

The president of the United States, Donald Trump, exerts strong pressure to get as quickly as possible to a cessation of hostilities in Ukraine, and multiply the signs of impatience with kyiv and Moscow.

“Reasons to be realistic”

He met with his Ukrainian counterpart in Rome on Saturday in Rome on Saturday in Rome, apart from Pope Francis’s funeral, and expressed doubts about the will of Russian President Vladimir Putin to resolve the conflict in Ukraine. “We are close (an agreement), but not close enough,” said Marco Rubio on Sunday in an interview with the NBC channel.

“I think this week will be crucial (…), we will have to decide whether we want to continue involved in this business or if it is time to concentrate on other questions that are equally important, even more important, in some cases,” he said.

The United States Secretary of State has tried again that there are “reasons to be optimistic, but there are also reasons to be realistic” about the possibilities of reaching an agreement, three years after the Russian invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.

“There is no military solution”

He reiterated the fact that there is no “military solution for this war.” “The only solution to this war is a negotiated regulation” where each party will have to make concessions, insisted on Marco Rubio.

In this sense, National Security Advisor Mike Waltz, interviewed Sunday at the Fox News channel, agrees that “there has been a certain number of discussions about the territory” with kyiv and Moscow, without giving details.

The US President assured Time magazine, in an interview broadcast on Friday, which Russia would retain Crimea, a Ukrainian peninsula that attached in 2014 and whose recognition as Russian territory is mentioned, according to the media, in the US proposal. Crimea “belongs” to Ukraine, insisted on Volodymyr Zelensky on Friday.