Washington still hopes to see the fighting stop, the US President has stated
US President Donald Trump has said that Washington could abandon efforts to find a peaceful resolution to the Ukraine conflict if Moscow and Kiev don’t engage in negotiations. He added, however, the US still hopes to see the fighting come to an end.
Speaking to reporters on Friday, Trump was asked to comment on remarks by the US Secretary of State Marco Rubio, who had suggested that the White House could walk away from efforts to broker a settlement.
“If for some reason one of the two parties makes it very difficult, we’re just going to say you’re foolish, you’re fools, you’re horrible people,” Trump said, adding “We’re going to just take a pass, but hopefully we won’t have to do that.”
Earlier on Friday, the secretary of state told journalists that the White House is still waiting to see if a peace deal is “doable.”
“We need to figure out here, now, within a matter of days, whether this is doable in the short term, because if it’s not, then I think we’re just going to move on,” Rubio said.
Rubio refused to comment on what is being discussed, but called it a “broad framework.”
“Marco [Rubio] is right in saying we want to see it [the conflict] end,” Trump said, noting “I think we have a good chance of solving the problem.”
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April 18, 2025 at 11:43PM
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