Us will soon hire peace effort for Ukraine, warns Rubio

Us will soon hire peace effort for Ukraine, warns Rubio

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

Encounters with European and Ukrainian allies

Rubios statements took place one day after he met European and Ukrainian allies together with the special representative Steve Witkoff, while the government of US President Donald Trump urges the end of the war in Ukraine. A peace plan written by the United States received an “encouraging response” in the conversations, according to a message from the Foreign Ministry, which, however, did not reveal any further details about the draft.

conversations about specific peace approaches

Rubio said that he and Witkoff came to Paris to “talk about more specific outlines, which is necessary to end the war” and whether this is actually possible. "If it is not possible if we are so far apart that this will not occur, then I think that the president is probably at the point at which he says we are finished," he added.

“It is not our war. We didn't start. The United States has been supporting Ukraine for three years and want this war to end, but it is not our war,” Rubio emphasized. "President Trump has invested 87 days at the highest level of the government to end this war. We are now reaching the point where we have to decide whether this is possible or not. That is the reason why we include both sides."

Missile attacks on Kharkiv

In the meantime, Russia started a rocket attack on Ukraine at night, which hit a residential area in the city of Charkiw. A person died in the attack and 67 others were injured, as the authorities announced on Friday. For a long time it was feared that there could be other people under the ruins of a damaged house.

progress in the mineral agreement

RUBIOS WARNING also takes place against the background that the USA and Ukraine headed for an agreement with regard to a mineral trade on Thursday evening. Kyiv and Washington have now signed a memorandum to get closer to the proposed agreement, said Ukrainian Minister of Economic Affairs Yulia Svyrydenko. "We are pleased to announce the signing of a memorandum with our American partners, which paves the way for an economic partnership agreement and the establishment of an investment fund for the reconstruction of Ukraine," said Svyrydenko in a post on the platform X.

The way to the final agreement

Ukrainian President Wolodymyr Selenskij had previously said on Thursday that the memorandum could possibly be signed from afar that day. "This document is the result of the professional work of the negotiation teams, which recently completed another round of technical discussions in Washington," added Svyrydenko. “Now the finalization of the text and its signing - then the ratification by the parliaments - stands before.”

“There is a lot to do, but the current pace and the significant progress can be expected that this document will be very advantageous for both countries,” Svyryden Castle. An earlier draft of the mineral agreement was in the February Public disputes between Selenskij and Trump have not been signed. The details of the proposed agreement have been in motion since then, since civil servants of the US Ministry of Finance met with a Ukrainian delegation in Washington this week to work out the agreement.

This is a developing story and is updated.