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Rubio leads a U.S. group for Paris talks as Macron seeks solidarity on Ukraine

Rubio leads a U.S. group for Paris talks as Macron seeks solidarity on Ukraine
April 18, 2025


Rubio leads a U.S. group for Paris talks as Macron seeks solidarity on Ukraine

French President Emmanuel Macron (left) shakes fingers with U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio subsequent to big envoy Steve Witkoff (middle) and France’s overseas minister, Jean-Noël Barrot, prior to a gathering on the Élysée presidential palace in Paris on Thursday.

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PARIS and KYIV — French President Emmanuel Macron hosted most sensible diplomats from the USA, Germany, the UK and Ukraine on Thursday to talk about efforts towards a peace deal between Russia and Ukraine, and check out to salvage a fraying alliance between Europe and the Trump management. “Everybody needs to get peace. A powerful and sustainable peace,” Macron stated whilst assembly the U.S. delegation at Élysée Palace. “The query is set phasing.” The U.S. delegation incorporated Secretary of State Marco Rubio, particular envoys Steve Witkoff and Keith Kellogg.

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“Very productive conferences at Elysee Palace on efforts to finish the Ukraine-Russia struggle,” Kellogg wrote at the social media platform X, in conjunction with {a photograph} of himself with Ukraine’s representatives. The State Division stated Rubio later spoke with Russian Overseas Minister Sergey Lavrov and stated the management has “now introduced to all events the outlines of a sturdy and lasting peace.” Witkoff has had more than one conferences with Russian President Vladimir Putin, together with final week in St. Petersburg, Russia. Ukraine has been pushing the U.S. to take a harder stance on Russia, whose full-scale invasion of Ukraine introduced in February 2022 and continues to assert lives. Talking to newshounds in Kyiv Thursday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy stated Witkoff “has followed Russia’s technique.”

A view shows the Russian Navy's vessels near the Black Sea port of Sevastopol, Crimea February 16, 2022.

Ukrainians have criticized Witkoff for statements made to Fox Information {that a} attainable peace deal may middle at the standing of 5 Ukrainian territories. The Kremlin illegally annexed the southern area of Crimea in 2014 and, since its full-scale invasion, has in part occupied the areas of Donetsk, Luhansk, Zaporizhzhia and Kherson. “It is very unhealthy as a result of he is consciously or unconsciously spreading Russian narratives,” Zelenskyy stated. “And he does no longer have the mandate to talk about Ukrainian territories, as a result of our territory belongs to our other folks.”

Requested about President Trump’s remark calling Russia’s fatal Palm Sunday strike at the northeastern of Sumy “a mistake,” Zelenskyy declined to criticize Trump and identified that Rubio had condemned the strike. Ukraine’s president did upload that Eu leaders have been way more forceful of their condemnation, slamming Russia for a strike that killed 35 civilians and injured 100.

“I believe the [Trump] management’s comfortable reaction displays the continuation in their present coverage,” Zelenskyy stated. “I consider they suspect that this sort of international relations, this structure, will assist convey the struggle to an finish.” Trump has lengthy stated that he needs to finish the struggle briefly. He says he’s pissed off with each Kyiv and Moscow, at the same time as his management seems to have embraced Moscow’s account of the struggle. Macron known as Zelenskyy prior to and after Thursday’s conferences. Extra conferences are deliberate in London subsequent week. Eleanor Beardsley reported from Paris and Joanna Kakissis from Kyiv.

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