Us could soon hire Ukraine peace efforts, warns Rubio

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The US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said on Friday that the United States should stop their efforts to terminate the war in Ukraine within "days" if this was not possible. "If it is not possible to end the war in Ukraine, we have to continue," he told reporters before he departed from Paris. "We have to decide very quickly and I speak of a question of days whether this is feasible or not."

conversations with European and Ukrainian allies

Rubios comment falls one day after a meeting with the special sent Steve Witkoff and European and Ukrainian allies, while the US government under President Donald Trump drives Russia's war in Ukraine. According to a report by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, a design of a peace plan developed by the USA was "encouraged" in the conversations, although no details of this draft were announced. Rubio also spoke to the Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and sent the same draft, according to the report.

analyze the situation

In his statements on Friday, Rubio emphasized that he and Witkoff came to Paris to "discuss more concrete framework conditions what could be necessary to end the war" and whether this war can be ended. "If it is not possible if we are so far apart that this will not happen, I think that the president is probably at a point at which he says that we have to leave it behind," he added.

"It is not our war. We didn't start. The United States has supported Ukraine in the past three years and we want it to end, but it is not our war," explained Rubio. "President Trump tirelessly worked on ending this war at the highest level of this government. We are now reaching a point where we have to decide whether this is possible at all. That is why we are committed to both sides."

Russian air raid on Ukraine

In the meantime, Russia started a rocket attack on Ukraine at night and met a residential area in the city of Charkiw. According to the authorities, a person died and 67 others were injured. There is fear that even more people could be included under the ruins of a damaged residential building.

progress in minerals

rubios warning words fell after the United States and Ukraine came closer to an agreement on minerals on Thursday evening. Kyiv and Washington have now signed a memorandum, as the Ukrainian Minister of Economic Affairs Yulia Svyrydenko reported. "We are pleased to announce the signing of a memorandum about the intention, which paves the way for an economic partnership agreement and the establishment of an investment fund for the reconstruction of Ukraine," said Svyrydenko in an X-Post.

Ukrainian President Wolodymyr Selenskyj had previously said on Thursday that a memorandum in connection with the agreement could be signed from afar on the same day. "This document is the result of the professional work of the negotiation teams, which recently completed another round of technical discussions in Washington," said Svyrydenko. "Now the finalization of the text of the agreement and its signing is pending - and then the ratification by the parliaments."

"There is a lot to do, but the current pace and the significant progress give rise to the expectation that the document will be very advantageous for both countries," concluded Svyrydenko. An earlier version of the mineral agreement Dispute between Selenskyj and Trump in February. The details of the proposed agreement have now been in the river, whereby Treasury officials met this week with a Ukrainian delegation in Washington to work out the final details, reported sources compared to Cnn.

This story continues to develop and is updated regularly.