The talks between the United States, Ukraine and the European Officials to end the Russian war in Ukraine on Wednesday, climbed his trip to London on Wednesday when US Secretary of State Marco Rubio was abbreviated and the negotiations were downgraded.
Rubios NO-Show prompted a broader meeting of outside ministers from Ukraine, Great Britain, France and Germany, although the talks continued on a lower level. The United States would now represent General Keith Kellogg by Ukraine.
The downgrading of the talks came early Wednesday in the fatal drone attack in the Ukrainian city of Marhanets. A Russian drone hit a bus, killed nine people and injured almost 50, said Kyiv officer.
The Ukrainian President Volodomyr Zelenskyy said that the bus transported workers of a mining and processing work.
“An ordinary bus. Obviously a civilian object, a civil goal,” said Zelenskyy on X.
Russia released a total of 134 attack drones in Ukraine overnight, said Kyiv’s Air Force. There was no immediate comment from Russia.
The status of the Crimea is said to be a embroidery point
In the diplomatic front, Rubio spoke to British Foreign Minister David Lammy late Tuesday and said that he was looking forward to the new planning of his trip in the coming months after the “Technical Meeting on Wednesday”.
Both Rubio and US President Donald Trump warned at the end of last week that Washington could go away from talks with Ukraine and Russia if there was soon no progress in a deal.
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At his arrival in London with the foreign and defense ministers, the Ukrainian presidential advisor Andriy Yermak said that the discussions would concentrate on opportunities to achieve a full and unconditional ceasefire as the first step towards peace.
“Despite everything, we will work for peace,” he said on social media.
The meeting is a follow-up for a similar session in Paris last week, in which the US, Ukrainian and European civil servants discussed paths to go forward and to get the tight positions.
During this conversations, Trump’s special representative Steve Witkoff presented the participants a paper in which suggestions were described in which Ukraine in particular, but also Russia, according to three diplomats who are aware of the conversations should be given.
Some of the proposals in Washington were unacceptable for European countries and Kyiv, several sources said. The French Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barrot said on Tuesday that the Europeans had detailed the United States in detail, which they regarded as non-negotiable aspects of a potential peace agreement.
Rubio said last week that the US frame he and Witkoff had proposed in Paris received an encouraging reception.
However, the sources said that under the US proposals recognized the illegal annexation of the Crimea of Russia, a step that was a non-starter for Europe and Ukraine.
Ukraine and Europeans would also have to accept the reality of the control of Russia over the remaining 20 percent of the Ukrainian territory. In addition, NATO membership for Ukraine would be excluded and the United States would start to raise sanctions against Russia.
The London talks aimed to bridge differences and find areas that Moscow fulfilled and opened serious negotiations, said diplomats.
There are other important embroidery points beyond the Crimea, including the Russia’s effort, sanctions against the European Union, on the other hand, before the negotiations have been concluded, what Europe has determined, said diplomats.
Washington proposed last week to set up a neutral zone in the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant in Ukrainian Russian-occupied Ukraine, according to European diplomats. Zelenskyy said on Tuesday that he was ready to work with the United States to restart the work.
Putin starts armed production, but wants more
Some of the ideas in Washington will probably also displeasure Moscow. Two diplomats said that the United States had not advanced Russian demands on the demilitarization of Ukraine and were not rejected against a European troop in the context of future security guarantees for Ukraine.
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Witkoff had not been part of the London talks. But in the parallel trace of Washington’s diplomacy with Moscow, he will meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin this week in Russia, said the White House.
On Wednesday, Putin commented on Russia to further increase military production in the fourth year of his war in Ukraine, even if it has discussions about the end of the conflict.
Putin told a meeting of the state military industry commission that almost all defense companies would have fully fulfilled their orders last year.
