The secretary of state added that whereas the US is “ready to do no matter we will to facilitate that and ensure … that [the war] ends in a sturdy and simply method,” if that’s “not attainable, if we’re thus far aside that this isn’t going to occur, then I feel the president might be at some extent the place he’s going to say, nicely, we’re executed.”
Rubio had traveled to the French capital alongside particular envoys Steve Witkoff and Keith Kellogg for ceasefire talks on Thursday with French President Emmanuel Macron and high-level delegations from Germany, Ukraine and the UK. Macron’s workplace described the conferences as the beginning of a “constructive course of by which Europeans are concerned” and that the discussions would proceed in London subsequent week.
After getting back from his third encounter with Russian President Vladimir Putin simply days earlier, Witkoff mentioned that Russia’s plan for an settlement hinges on “5 territories of Ukraine.” Whereas he didn’t specify which areas, it’s seemingly he was referring to Crimea — which Moscow seized in violation of worldwide legislation in 2014 — and 4 different Ukrainian areas that Russia illegally annexed after sham referendums in 2022 however doesn’t totally management.
Kyiv has repeatedly pushed again in opposition to agreeing to relinquish land to Russia and has referred to as for the worldwide neighborhood to respect its territorial integrity. However Macron’s workplace informed reporters that any ceasefire settlement should “begin from actuality” and famous that “numerous territories are presently occupied by Russia.”
