US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said the coming week would be "very critical" for the White home in the context of peace plans concerning Russia and Ukraine. This time will "determine whether it is an undertaking we want to proceed to engage in," he added.
"There are reasons for optimism, but there are besides reasons for realism. We are close, but not close enough," Rubio said in the NBC program "Meet the Press".
"The full process is to find whether both sides truly want peace and how close they are to each another or how far they are from each another after 90 days of efforts here... that's what we're trying to figure out this week," he explained.
He besides said Trump had not yet imposed sanctions on Russia in connection with the ongoing war with Ukraine, due to the fact that the White home inactive hopes diplomacy will end the war.
Will Russian diplomacy end the war?
Rubio's comments appear erstwhile Trump increases force on Russia and Ukraine to scope a peace agreement. On Saturday, the president of the United States met with the president of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenski in Vatican City on the day of the ceremony of Pope Francis. Then he admitted that he felt Putin was letting him into the raspberries and did not want peace.
This is besides evidenced by the highly tricky interview that the head of Russian diplomacy Sergei Lavrow late gave. He slipped after the subject, swindled from the simplest answers, mammothed and threatened.
In an interview with Margaret Brennan Lavrow, he refused to give an outline of the current agreement drawn up by Trump for Russia and Ukraine.
"We are truly kind people and unlike any others, we never discuss publically what is being discussed in negotiations. Otherwise, negotiations are not serious. To ask for an opinion on the substance of the case, you should go to Zelenski. He gladly talks to everyone through the media, even with president Trump," said Lavrow.
When the lead tried to learn how close the peace agreement was to reaching, he began to key.
"Now I understand, incidentally, why you wanted short answers to your questions. You want any passwords," he said to Brennan.
"You're not listening to me," he said at any point. "We will proceed to attack places utilized by the Ukrainian military, by any mercenaries from abroad countries and by instructors whose Europeans officially sent to aid attack Russian civilian facilities," he perorated.
When the lead tried to ask him about his words in which he expressed concerns that the United States would "suddenly" abolish sanctions and then flood Russian markets, he outraged.
"Why are you asking me? You just quoted my statement," he replied. "And this message is clear to me and to all who read it. If you have any questions, direct them to the American side. This is not the right address to decision with me," he said.
Brennan said, "So you want to keep the sanctions. Is this truly Russia's position?" Jurov replied, "I don't think I want to explain again what I explained, in a pretty, beautiful clear way."
"We realize impatience," he said erstwhile asked about a possible negotiation final. "Because in American culture you make expectations and fuel the tension around these expectations. It doesn't aid to run a realpolitic. But in our case, as I said, we're always ready for dialogue, ready for negotiations, and we wouldn't start, you know, by counting for failure. This would be a feature of bad, inexperienced negotiators," he keyed.
