PARIS: WHITE HOUSE: Secretary of State Marco Rubio has said Friday (18th April, 2025) that Trump might walk away from trying to broker Moscow-Kyiv Peace Deal within days unless there were clear signs that the deal was doable.
Following his rendezvous with European leaders here he stated: “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...If it’s not possible, if we’re so far apart that this is not going to happen, then I think the president is probably at a point where he’s going to say, ‘well, we’re done’.”
It might be recalled that despite Putin-Trump’s telephonic conversation on 19th March, Russia and Ukraine continued aerial attacks against each other. Moscow had agreed to temporarily stop attacks on energy infrastructure targets, yet hours later the two countries commenced aerial assaults. While Russia claims that Ukraine had attacked one of its oil facilities, Kyiv accuses Moscow of a hundred and fifty drone attacks.
It is pertinent to mention here that following his conversation with Russian President Putin, Donald Trump also talked to Ukrainian Zelenskyy who stated: “Putin essentially rejected the proposal of a comprehensive ceasefire. It would be right for the world to reject any attempts by Putin to draw out the war.” On 28th Feb Trump said: “We have Russia, we have Ukraine. We have not made a deal yet. So I don’t like to talk about peacekeeping until we have a deal.”
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