Ukraine has to make some territorial concessions for peace agreements, says Marco Rubio

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As part of a peace agreement, Ukraine would have to accept Russian control over a territory, the top diplomat of the United States announced on Monday the evening before the talks between Washington and Kyiv in Saudi Arabia.

Foreign Minister Marco Rubio said journalists on the way to high -ranking conversations in Jeddah that “the Russians cannot conquer the entire Ukraine, and obviously it will be very difficult for Ukraine to step down the Russians up to 2014.”

Rubios Comments on the borders of Ukraine before the annexation of the Crimea in Russia in 2014, eight years before Moscow Full invasion of UkraineRemove how the Trump government with Kyiv took a much harder attitude than the government of Joe Biden.

The talks on Tuesday in Saudi Arabia come to a crucial moment, about 10 days after a public spit in the White House between the Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and the President Donald Trump Washington helps to convey an end to the conflict through the origins of the Russia’s invasion and the future of the United States.

Trump has cut military help and secret services since then, but Zelenskyy Has made a few overtures in the White House last week, including a promise to sign a deal that gives US access to the critical minerals of Ukraine, which led to a certain influence of friction.

Zelenskyy said on Monday evening in the telegram that “the Ukrainian position at the meeting will be absolutely constructive”. He added that he had spoken to Mohammed Bin Salman, Saudi -Arabia’s Crown Prince, about “the steps and conditions that could end the war and make peace reliably and permanently”.

Rubio spoke on Monday on his flight to Saudi Arabia with reporters and hoped that military help could be restored.

“I think the concept of the break that is largely on the whole, I hope that we can solve ourselves. Obviously what happens tomorrow will be the key to it, ”he said.

Officials who were informed about preparations for the negotiations in Saudi Arabia said that Kyiv was a partial ceasefire with Russia for long-distance drone and rocket attacks and combat facilities in the Black Sea, hoping that the progress of the talks would lead to Washington to prevent his decision, prevent intelligence and arms.

Trump was criticized domestically and internationally because he exerted too much pressure on Ukraine to achieve concessions and Russia in the conversations about a peace agreement that Washington runs on parallel routes. Russian and Ukrainian officials have not started any direct negotiations.

While Trump Russia endangers Sanctions and tariffs Last week he publicly critically critically critically against the elections in Ukraine, which could lead to his sacrifice. When he returned to Washington with reporters on Air Force One on Sunday from Florida on Sunday, he kept the pressure on Kyiv.

“I want you to want peace, right?” The US President said.

“Well, at the moment you have not shown it so that you should. I think they don’t have it at the moment, but I think they will be and I think it will be obvious in the next two or three days, ”he said.

On Monday, British Prime Minister Sir Keir Starrer Trump said that he wanted to have “positive” conversations between the top US and Ukrainian officials who would pave the way for a resumption of military help and the secret service in Washington with Kyiv.

“The prime minister said he hoped that the talks would give a positive result that would allow us to share help and secret services,” said a spokesman for the Downing Street on Monday. The White House has not published its report on the conversation.

Starrer has positioned himself as one of the most important players in Europe in the conflict and helped together with French President Emmanuel Macron to smooth Zelssssky’s relationships with Trump and gather a Coalition of the European powers Ready to use troops to Ukraine to ensure a peace agreement.

A spokesman for the Downing Street said that the Prime Minister said Trump that British officials had spoken to the Ukrainian representatives at the weekend and had assured Kyiv that they “continued to be obliged to peace”.

On Saturday, Starrer organizes a virtual meeting of a group of mainly European and Commonwealth countries who are willing to secure a peace agreement between Kyiv and Moscow.