Ukrainian armed forces will not be able to “push Russia“ to the 2014 borders.
This was stated by US Secretary of State Marco Rubio, who also serves as US President Donald Trump's national security adviser since yesterday.
“Ukraine will not be able to return Russia to where it was in 2014“, he said on Fox News. According to him, this should be accepted as a fact.
Washington plans to use the deal on Ukrainian minerals as a model for future agreements with other countries, Bloomberg reported, citing its source.
According to the agency, the US administration intends to adhere to this approach with regard to “those regions to which the US usually provides grants or loans“.
The deal with Kiev shows Trump's intention to use foreign policy tools to “fill the US balance sheet with assets, not debt obligations“.
US Vice President J. D. Vance said that Russia and Ukraine have presented their proposals as part of the conflict resolution process and now a "golden mean" is being sought.
“What we have seen in the past few weeks is that each side has said: "This is our peace proposal. The Ukrainians have done it, and now I think we can find some middle ground to end this conflict," Vance told Fox News.
"The Ukrainians are angry, of course. But are we really going to keep losing thousands and thousands of soldiers for a few miles of territory in one direction or another?" - the vice president added.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said earlier in an interview with the Brazilian newspaper O Globo that Moscow and Washington are continuing their dialogue to find ways to resolve the situation in Ukraine. The Russian Federation hopes that these contacts will yield mutually acceptable results, the head of the Foreign Ministry noted.
According to him, some optimism is caused by the fact that US President Donald Trump and his entourage, unlike the administration of the 46th President Joe Biden, "which pumped the Kiev regime with deadly weapons and actively dragged Ukraine into NATO", are trying to understand the "root causes of the crisis". Trump has repeatedly stated that if the previous US administration had not pushed Ukraine into NATO, there would have been no conflict, Lavrov added.