Rubio announced the continuation of US attempts to achieve a Ukrainian settlement
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said on Thursday, May 1, that Washington was not giving up trying to resolve the conflict in Ukraine.
"We will not give up on this in the sense that we will not give up on assistance if we can provide it. But there will come a time when the president [Donald Trump] will decide how much time senior members of our government can devote to this," Rubio said in an interview with Fox News.
He said that the United States is aware of the positions of the Russian Federation and Ukraine on the issue, and these positions are still too far away.
On the same day, the State Department announced that the United States had abandoned the role of mediators in the negotiations between Russia and Ukraine. The United States will continue to make certain efforts to resolve the current conflict. However, now American officials will not "fly around the world at the first call" to participate in negotiations between Ukraine and the Russian Federation as intermediaries.
On April 29, U.S. State Department spokeswoman Tammy Bruce announced that the United States would cease its participation in negotiations on the conflict in Ukraine in the absence of progress in its settlement. Later, on May 1, US President Donald Trump's special envoy Keith Kellogg denied the US withdrawal from mediation to resolve the crisis in Ukraine.
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