The United States could “move on” from its efforts to broker a deal between Russia and Ukraine in the coming days, Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Friday.
“We’re not going to continue with this endeavour for weeks and months on end,” Rubio told reporters in Paris.
“We need to figure out here now, within a matter of days, whether this is doable in the short term, because if it’s not, then I think we’re just going to move on,” he added.
Rubio’s comments came hours after Yulia Svyrydenko, Ukraine’s first deputy prime minister and economy minister said that Ukraine and Washington signed a memorandum, bringing both sides closer to clinching a minerals deal.
Svyrydenko said in a post on X late Thursday that it would pave the way for an economic partnership between the U.S. and Ukraine.
Rubio did not mention the memorandum when he spoke to reporters in Paris on Friday.
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