Rubio warned about changing US priorities with insufficient progress on Ukraine

The United States will shift its attention to other priority areas with insufficient progress in resolving the conflict in Ukraine. This was announced on April 23 by the American Secretary of State Marco Rubio.

According to him, Washington has done everything possible, investing a lot of time and energy in resolving the conflict at the highest levels of government.

"We will continue to do this as long as there is a realistic way forward. If at some point we decide that we are too far apart and progress is insufficient, we may have to move on to other priorities, because there are many important things happening in the world," Rubio said in The Free Press's Hestelly with Bari Weiss podcast, which is transcribed on the website. The US State Department.

He clarified that the American side is currently trying to determine for itself the positions of Moscow and Kiev in order to understand whether it is possible to come to a peaceful settlement in the near future. Rubio expressed hope that the United States would be able to succeed, but stressed that it was up to Russia and Ukraine to decide on rapprochement and a peaceful settlement.

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On the afternoon of April 23, US Vice President Jay Dee Vance said that Washington could withdraw from negotiations on a peaceful settlement in Ukraine if Moscow and Kiev did not accept the ideas of the American side. He stressed that the United States had made a "very clear proposal" for Russia and Ukraine on the path to a peace agreement.