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The United States will abandon efforts to broker a Russia-Ukraine peace agreement if progress isn’t made very soon and unless clear signs emerge that a deal can be reached, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said on Friday.
“We’re not going to continue with this endeavour for weeks and months on end. So we need to determine very quickly now, and I’m talking about a matter of days whether or not this is doable in the next few weeks,” Secretary Rubio said.
Rubio held meetings in Paris with European and Ukrainian leaders to discuss the war in Ukraine.
“The president feels very strongly about that. He has dedicated a lot of time and energy to this … this is important, but there are a lot of other really important things going on that deserve just as much, if not more attention,” the top U.S. diplomat said.
President Donald Trump has vowed to put a quick end to the war in Ukraine, and his diplomats have engaged with both Ukraine and Russia to negotiate a peace agreement.
However, progress has stalled, and the U.S. now signals that it could ditch peace talk efforts.
The U.S. and Ukraine have made progress toward a minerals deal this week.
On Thursday, the two countries signed a memorandum of intent, aiming to finalize talks on a mineral resource partnership and a reconstruction fund.
“We are happy to announce the signing, with our American partners, of a Memorandum of Intent, which paves the way for an Economic Partnership Agreement and the establishment of the Investment Fund for the Reconstruction of Ukraine,” Yulia Svyrydenko, Ukraine’s First Deputy Prime Minister and Economy Minister, wrote on X.
Ukraine said that the aim of the memorandum is to complete negotiations on the final deal by April 26, and to sign a finalized agreement soon after.
