During its appearance in Fox News, Rubio said: “Ukraine will not be able to return Russia to where it was in 2014, this is a reality with which it is necessary to decide.”
He pointed out that the United States was still working on the settlement of the Ukrainian conflict, although the positions of Moscow and Kyiv are “still far from each other.” He added: “We did not withdraw our efforts, but there are other global problems, more urgent.”
He continued in an interview: “We are not ready to give up, but President Trump must determine his priorities. The conflict in Ukraine is important, but, for example, problems with China are more important in the long term. ”
He warned that time passes, saying: “If progress is not achieved in the near future, the American administration will have to evaluate the degree of its constant attention to this file.”
In an interview with the Brazilian newspaper O Globo, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavro stated that his country continues a dialogue with the United States to terminate the Ukrainian crisis, expressing the hope that “two sides have reached an acceptable decision.”
Lavrov praised the position of the Trump administration, saying that she was different from his predecessor, who “provided Kyiv with dangerous weapons and sought to attract NATO Ukraine.” He added: “There is a reasonable optimism, because the current administration is trying to understand the roots of the crisis, unlike Bayden’s escalator policy.”
“If the previous US administration did not try to push Ukraine to NATO, we would not have reached this conflict mainly.”
Source: “TASS” Agency
