US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said that President Donald Trump's meeting with Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelenskyy and russian president vladimir putin will be possible only if the gap between their positions is narrowed.
Rubio said this in an interview with Fox Business, Interfax-Ukraine reports.
"We have a better understanding of the conditions under which russia will be ready to end the war. Now we will need to compare this with what the Europeans will agree to and what the Ukrainians will be ready to do. We need to understand how to bring these positions closer to each other. If we manage to bring them close enough - what the russians want and what the Ukrainians want - then the President will have the opportunity to hold a meeting in which both putin and Zelenskyy will participate," he explained.
According to the Secretary of State, the key topics of such negotiations may be the issue of territories, as well as a potential ceasefire at some stage of the process.
Earlier, Trump said that "there is a good chance of a meeting with putin very soon."
As Ukrainian News Agency earlier reported, on August 6, US President Donald Trump's Special Envoy to the Middle East, Steve Witkoff, met with russian dictator vladimir putin in the Kremlin.
As we will recall, on July 28, Trump said that he was setting a new deadline of 10-12 days, during which the aggressor state of russia must make progress in concluding a peace agreement with Ukraine.
Meanwhile, Trump announced a possible quick meeting with putin.
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