According to her, US President Donald Trump seeks to end the war in Ukraine with a diplomatic way, but for the United States, not only the war in Ukraine is now a priority, since there is a “whole globe that requires certain attention.”
“We are not going to fly around the world to hold intermediary meetings. This is now between the two parties. Now the time has come when they [Украина и РФ] They must present and develop concrete ideas regarding how this conflict should end, ”Bruce emphasized.
At the same time, the press secretary of the State Department noted that the possibility of introducing new American sanctions against Russia is retained.
Context
On April 25, Reuters published the full text of the final proposal of the United States on a peace agreement between Ukraine and the Russian Federation. It says, in particular, that the United States de-Jure recognizes Crimea by the Russian territory, de facto recognizes the control of the Russian Federation over the Lugansk region and units of the Donetsk, Zaporizhzhya and Kherson regions.
On the same day, Reuters unveiled the response of Ukraine and the EU to the US peaceful proposals. The Ukrainian-European document proposes to postpone a detailed discussion of territorial issues before the conclusion of a ceasefire, without mentioning the recognition of Russian control over any territory of Ukraine.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov in an interview with Globe on April 28 named the conditions that Russia puts forward to ceasefire. Among them are the demilitarization of Ukraine, the recognition of Russian sovereignty over four Ukrainian regions and Crimea, the removal of all sanctions.
President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky repeatedly stated that he did not recognize the occupied territories in parts of Russia, but recently noted that now there are no weapons in Ukraine to return the peninsula.
US Vice-President Jay Di Vance in an interview with Fox News, published on April 30, said that the United States will be engaged in negotiations at the end of the war in Ukraine, which began the Russian Federation.
