States can no longer pretend that Moscow wants peace, and there is a possibility of putting it on the negotiation table, western publications write.
From the US president’s team Donald Trump, the statements were re -received on the possible release from direct peace negotiations to the Ukraine war. Thus, on the eve of the United States Department of State, the United States Department of State said that Washington has shifted attention from through and called for the direct contact of Kyiv and Moscow. Western media believes this is the final test for Putin, more detailed in the plot.
“Specific ideas”
The Press Secretary of the State Department of Temmi Bruce said states remain focused on the support of peaceful efforts in Ukraine, but will reduce their direct role of an intermediary.
According to him, Washington changes the “method of our contribution” to negotiations and no longer “fly around the world at the time” for meetings.
“This is the thing of the two sides now, and now is the time to display and develop specific ideas about how this conflict will end,” Bruce told journalists.
“He (the president of the United States – Ed.) Also knows that there is another part of the world, a whole world that needs certain attention,” he added.
It takes a breakthrough
In this regard, state secretary Marco Rubio said Ukraine and Russia are closer to a peace agreement than ever before. But the United States believes that the positions of both parties are still far from each other.
“See, we’re approaching. We – for the first time – we don’t know it for three years – we can understand what Ukraine needs. We can understand what Russians need. The problem is that these two positions are quite different,” Rubio said.
In addition, the Trump team also believes that in order to achieve the world you need a “real success”, because there are other important issues about, in particular, China and Iran, Rubio says.
“We will not give up on it (mediation, Ed.) It is aware that we will be willing to help where we can, but the moment will come that President Trump must decide how much time we will devote to it to the highest level,” the Secretary of the State said.
Check for Putin
According to the Telegraph, Trump, in the event of a refusal of the peace process, puts the Kremlin in a certain difficult position. The White House hopes that the President of Russia is more seriously in contact with Washington, if the United States begins to cool down again, the publication added.
At the same time, as CNN writes, in American political and intelligence they have long been skeptical that Vladimir Putin and his environment are conducting honest negotiations.
The fact that Washington could no longer pretend that Moscow was ready for peace, Bloomberg wrote. Additionally, according to the publication, the Trump team “prepared pressure options for Moscow”
According to people who are familiar with this issue, US officials have developed a number of options for strengthening economic pressure in Russia, as Putin refuses to come up with stopping.
The proposals include the ability to target penalties in the banking sector of the Russian Federation or introduce the So -called second penalty. Earlier, Trump wrote on his social network that “Putin has no reason to shell the residential areas” and that is “I think he doesn’t want to stop the war.”
Kyiv and its allies have called on the United States to strengthen pressure in Moscow, especially by expanding penalties for exporting energy carriers and oil income to force Putin to sit at the negotiation table.
Resources, talking to Bloomberg, have warned that the American leader has not yet made the final decision, and that diplomatic efforts are still ongoing.
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