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Paris: US State Secretary Marco Rubio said on Friday that the US may “move forward” by trying to secure the Russia-Ukraine peace deal “If there is no progress in the coming days, they have failed to end the fight after months of efforts. He spoke between us in Paris after a landmark talks, Ukrainian and European authorities prepared the outline for peace and some appeared for a long -awaited progress. A new meeting is expected in London next week, and Rubio suggested that the Participation of the Trump administration may be decisive in determining.
Rubio told reporters at the departure, “We are now reaching a point where we need to decide whether it is even more possible or not.” “Because if it is not, I think we are just going to move forward.” “This is not our war,” said Rubio. “We have other priorities to focus.” He said that the US administration wants to decide “in a few days”.
The US and Ukraine progress on the mineral deal. His comments came and Ukraine is close to a long delayed deal providing American access to Ukraine’s vast mineral resources, which is associated with the peace shock of President Donald Trump.
Trump said on Thursday, “We have a mineral deal,” and Ukraine’s economy minister said on Friday that the two countries later signed a memorandum of intentions before a possible full -fledged agreement. The deal, which Ukrainian economy minister Yulia Savidenco, said that he had signed with US Treasury Secretary Scott Besant, expected to pave the way for significant investment, modernization of infrastructure and long -term cooperation.
The outline of the mineral deal was stalled in February after a controversial oval office meeting between Trump, US Vice President JD Vance, and Ukrainian President Volodimir Zelanski. The conversation has started again since then. Despite increasing American impatience with peace efforts, Rubio called Paris on Thursday as creative. “Nobody rejected anything, anyone got up from the table or left.”
Rubio did not exclude Russia or Ukraine as blocking peace efforts. He said that he informed the Russian External Affairs Minister Sergei Lavarov about the outlines that used to talk after Paris’s conversation, but would not say how Lavarov reacted.
When asked about Rubio’s comments on Friday, Kremlin’s spokesman Dimitri Peskov told reporters that “quite complex” conversations between Russia and the US were underway. He did not give the details, but said that no direct talks between Trump and Putin are not scheduled in the coming days.
He said, “Russia is trying to resolve this struggle, secure its interests, and open for dialogue. We are continuing to do so,” he said. After weeks of tension with European colleagues, Rubio told reporters in Paris that European negotiaters proved to be helpful. “The UK and France and Germany can help us move the ball over it.”
European concerns about Trump’s readiness to draw close to Russia are increasing. After Trump’s inauguration, the dialogue was the first time that top American, Ukrainian and European authorities met to discuss the end of the war, which has challenged the greatest security for Europe since World War II.
The meetings addressed the security guarantee for Ukraine in the future, but Rubio would not discuss any possible American role in it. Any American support for Ukraine is seen as important to ensure that Russia will not attack again after reaching a peace deal.
Rubio said Rubio and President Envoy Steve Witcoff have helped lead American efforts to seek peace, and Vistchoff has met with Putin three times. There have been several rounds of talks in Saudi Arabia.
Moscow has effectively refused to accept a broad ceasefire that Trump has pushed and Ukraine supported. Russia has made it conditional at a stop in Ukraine’s efforts to raise it and the supply of Western weapons, which are the demands rejected by Ukraine.
Russia attacked 2 Ukrainian cities, injured the score:
Meanwhile, Russia maintained a series of deadly attacks on Ukrainian cities, according to the officials there, during the Palm Sunday celebrations in the northern city Sumi, the missiles injured the score of the citizens after killing at least 34.
One person died and 98 others, including six children, were hurt, as Russia killed Kharakiv, the second largest city in Ukraine, at the beginning of the day, his mayor Ihor Terakhov said on Friday. He said that the cluster Munishan hit the “densely populated” in the neighborhood.
The office of the Regional Prosecutor said that the Russian drone also targeted a bakery in Sumi, which after less than a week of the deadly palm Sunday strike, killed a customer and injured an employee. Pictures released by the agency revealed that the rows of Easter cake were piled inside the building, covered in thick dust, as there was a huge hole in the wall behind them and the debris was piled on the floor.
Sumi’s strike last Sunday, resulting in large -scale casualties, was a second massive missile attack to claim civil life in a week. On April 4, some 20 people, including nine children, died, as missiles killed Zelanceci’s hometown Kryvy Rih.