The US Secretary of State Marco Rubiohas asserted this Sunday that a peace agreement between Russia and Ukraine is closer, but it is not yet ready. In an NBC News American channel program, he said he is “closer in general than at any other time of the last three years, but has not yet been achieved.”
Regarding the state of the negotiations, the Secretary of State has concluded that “There are reasons to be optimistic and also to be worried”. “If this were an easy war to finish, someone else would have ended it a long time ago.”
For his part, the US president, Donald Trumpthreatened this Saturday with new sanctions to the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, because “too many people are dying” in Ukraine and the situation makes him think that perhaps his counterpart “He doesn’t want to stop war.”
“Putin had no reason to shoot missiles against civil areas, cities and towns in recent days. It makes me think that perhaps he does not want to stop war and have to be treated differently, through the ‘bank’ or ‘secondary sanctions’?
Trump and the Ukrainian president, Volodimir Zelenski, met before the funeral in the Basilica of San Pedro, where the coffin was before the homily, and held a meeting of about 15 minutes that the communications director of the White House, Steven Cheung, described as “A very productive conversation.”
Stay up to date with the HuffPost! Follow all the news from your mobile in our. You can download it for both.
