Rubio says “more work to be done” after our hours – Ukraine talks about ending Russian war

US and Ukrainian authorities spent nearly four hours on Sunday aiming to find an endgame in the War between Russia and Ukraine.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio explained the time on Sunday – which included the special assistant Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner, and the Ukrainian mother-in-law of the President, “but the talks will continue this week in Moscow with the Russian leader Vladimir Putin.

“We don’t just want to end the war. We want to help Ukraine to be safe forever. So they will face attacks again. “It’s about the policies that set Ukraine to prosper for a long time. … I think we’re building on that today, but there’s more work to be done.”

The talks come at a critical moment for Ukraine as it continues to fall back on the power of Russia that was attacked in 2022 while facing a bout of domestic corruption.

Diplomas have always focused on proposed revisions plan It was developed in negotiations between Washington and Moscow. That plan has been criticized as weighing heavily on Russian interests. During the Assembly on Sunday, Rubio focused on strengthening Ukraine.

Rustem Umerov, Ukraine’s secretary of national security, thanked the American negotiators in brief comments following the meeting but gave few details of their discussion.

“We discussed all the important issues that are important for Ukraine, for the Ukrainian people and we were very supportive. We already had a successful meeting in Geneva, and today we continue this success,” said Merov. “So for now, this meeting was productive and successful in the later stages, hopefully we will keep it renewed.”

Umerov participated in ongoing discussions. But so far, Ukraine’s Negotiator has been there Andriy Yermak, The powerful chief of staff of the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Jesenskyy. On Friday, Zelenskyy announced Jemak’s resignation, after his home was searched by corruption investigators.

Zelenskyy’s government was produced by the fallout from a Scandal over $100 million It broke out in the energy sector through the use of kickbacks paid to contractors, which caused new domestic pressures for Zelenskyy.

It was only a week ago that Rubio met with Yermak in Geneva, where each side said the talks had been positive in putting together a revised peace plan.

Among the other Ukrainian members were Andrii HNNATION, head of the Ukrainian armed forces, and presidential adviser Oleksandr Bevz.

The plan, which Mr. Trump has since played down as a “concept” or “map” to be “well organized,” would have been the country’s limit in NATO and prevented Ukraine from joining the election in 100 days. It indicated to interviewees that the framework had changed, but it was not clear how its provisions had been changed.

At first it was thought that Ukraine would pick up the entire eastern region of A gem Russia – point of attachment of Kyiv.

Mr Trump said on Wednesday he would send Witkoff and possibly Kushner to Moscow this week to meet with Putin about the plan. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov, in comments published Sunday on Russian state television, said Putin will see Witkoff before Thursday, when Putin leaves India.

Both Witkoff and Kushner, like Mr. Trump, praise them in the real estate world for what you do with meetings. The two were behind the 20-point proposal that led to a cease-fire in Gaza.

Zelenskyy wrote to X that the Ukrainian delegation would ‘quickly and use the necessary measures to end the war. “

In his speech on Saturday night, Zelenskyy said that the American side is “showing a constructive way.”

“In the coming days it may happen in the flesh in the steps to find out how to bring the war to a decent place,” he said.