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London talks aimed at ensuring a ceasefire between Ukraine and Russia were reduced and will no longer include US Secretary of State Mark Rubio and Special Messenger Steve Witco.
Instead, the meeting will take place among high -ranking officials from the UK, France, Germany, Ukraine and the United States, while the UK Foreign Minister David Lami will be held with his Ukrainian counterpart.
Trump’s Ukrainian, General Keith Kealo, is present at the negotiations instead of Vitco and Rubio, who call talks on Wednesday as “technical meetings”.
This week, the US Secretary of State focus on negotiations in Moscow, as the pace of diplomatic efforts to stop the war is accelerated.
The assumptions that Russia may be ready to stop its invasion of current advanced lines in return for significant concessions.
However, there is little clarity about where the last conversations go, or they will succeed.
President of Ukrainian Volodimir Zelensky ruled out recognizing the occupied Crimea as a Russian territory, after the reports suggested that it was considered by the US and the Kremlin.
Russia strengthened the attacks on Ukraine on Wednesday, after a short lull on Easter when air strikes stopped.
Died nine people And dozens more wounded in the eastern Ukrainian city of Marhanet when a Russian drone was on a bus carried by workers. Officials in the southern region of Kherson said the key object that supplied electricity was destroyed after he was re -Russian.
On the eve of the London’s Wednesday talks, Mark Rubio talked to the UK Foreign Minister that he hoped it would be “essential and good technical meetings”, adding that he would move his planned trip to the UK in the coming months.
Lami called the “productive” conversation, passing ahead of “a critical moment for Ukraine, Britain and Euro-Atlantic security” because “negotiations continue at the pace”.
The US Secretary of State said at X: “I look forward to the next discussions after the current discussions.”
Negotiations between the Foreign Ministers were postponed to the UK on Wednesday.
“The official negotiations will continue, but they are closed for the media,” the statement reads.
The White House said that Vitkoff would go to Moscow this week for a fourth meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
All this happens against the background Report in Financial Times A newspaper that Russia may be ready to stop its invasion of existing advanced lines and abandon territorial claims to the areas that it currently occupies, in return for recognizing the US sovereignty over Crimea.
Kremlin’s press -secretary Dmitry Peskov rejected the report, informing the state media that “a lot of fakes are being published”.
Zelensky stated that he was not divided with him, that such proposals did not share, and he rejected the recognition of Crimea as a Russian territory.
“Ukraine does not legally recognize the occupation of Crimea. There is nothing to say,” he said during a briefing on Tuesday night.
Speaking to the BBC Radio 4’s Today program, Yuri Sack, Advisor of the Ministry of Strategic Industry of Ukraine, stated that “such reports” did not discuss “and added that” naively “expects Ukraine to change its position on” not subject “, for example, Crimea.
SAK added that the Ukrainian negotiators would attend the London meeting at a “very clear, narrow mandate” to reach the ceasefire that will “laid the way for further negotiations”.
Putin called a temporary ceasefire on Easter weekend, but on Tuesday, UK Defense Minister John Hill told the House of Commons that the British military intelligence had not found evidence of the attack.
“While Putin said he had announced an Easter truce, he broke him,” he said. “While Putin says he wants peace, he rejected the complete ceasefire, and while Putin says he wants to put an end to fighting, he continues to play time in the negotiations.”
Hill added that he could “confirm Russian military progress”, “slowing down”, while the country continued to “press Ukraine on a number of fronts.”
Hundreds of thousands of people were estimated or injured on all sides because Russia broke into Ukraine on February 24, 2022, and nearly seven million Ukrainians were currently consisted included in the refugee list All over the world.
The conflict returns for more than ten years, until 2014, when the pro -Russian president of Ukraine was overthrown. Then Russia annexed Crimea and supported the militants in bloody battles in eastern Ukraine.
