{"id":134396,"date":"2025-04-20T09:27:12","date_gmt":"2025-04-20T09:27:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/u-s-will-move-on-from-ukraine-peace-efforts-if-no-progress-within-days-marco-rubio-warns-nbc-news\/"},"modified":"2025-04-20T09:27:12","modified_gmt":"2025-04-20T09:27:12","slug":"u-s-will-move-on-from-ukraine-peace-efforts-if-no-progress-within-days-marco-rubio-warns-nbc-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/u-s-will-move-on-from-ukraine-peace-efforts-if-no-progress-within-days-marco-rubio-warns-nbc-news\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. 'will move on' from Ukraine peace efforts if no progress within days, Marco Rubio warns – NBC News"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The United States may be ready to \u201cmove on\u201d from its efforts to broker a peace deal between Russia and Ukraine <\/a>if there is no clear progress in the coming days, Secretary of State Marco\u00a0Rubio<\/a>\u00a0said Friday.
After a grueling day of talks among U.S., Ukrainian and European officials in Paris on Friday, Rubio told reporters, \u201cWe\u2019re not going to continue with this endeavor for weeks and months on end.\u201d
\u201cWe need to figure out here now, within a matter of days, whether this is doable in the short term, because if it\u2019s not, then I think we\u2019re just going to move on,\u201d he said, adding that President Donald Trump <\/a>\u201cfeels very strongly about that.\u201d
Speaking to reporters in the Oval Office on Friday, Trump said that “Marco is right” that the U.S. wants the war to end, but “hopefully we won’t have to” walk away from peace talks. Pressed on a specific timeline for when the U.S. would begin to reevaluate its role in the negotiations, Trump said, \u201cNo specific numbers of days, but quickly, we want to get it done.\u201d
\u201cWe\u2019re talking about, here, people dying,\u201d Trump said. \u201cWe\u2019re going to get it stopped, ideally. Now if, for some reason, one of the two parties makes it very difficult. We\u2019re just going to say, \u2018You\u2019re foolish, you\u2019re fools, you\u2019re horrible people,\u2019 and we\u2019re going to just take a pass. But hopefully we won\u2019t have to do that, and Marco, and Marco is right in saying it.”
Trump also expressed confidence that a peace agreement will be reached, saying, \u201cI think we have a good chance of solving the problem.\u201d
The president declined to say whether the U.S. would completely walk away from the talks, saying, \u201cI don\u2019t want to say that, but we want to see it end.\u201d He also declined to say whether the U.S. would continue supporting Ukraine if the administration does walk away from the negotiating table.
Trump said he needs to see \u201centhusiasm\u201d from Ukraine and Russia that they want the conflict to be over. He also rejected the idea that he\u2019s being \u201cplayed\u201d by Russia: \u201cNobody\u2019s playing me. I\u2019m trying to help.\u201d
The comments came after Yulia Svyrydenko, Ukraine\u2019s first deputy prime minister and economy minister, said that Kyiv and Washington had signed a memorandum that is expected to bring both sides closer to clinching a minerals deal that will allow the U.S. access to Ukraine\u2019s rare-earth mineral wealth.
Yulia Svyrydenko said in a post on X<\/a> late Thursday that it would pave the way for an economic partnership agreement between the U.S. and Ukraine, and establish an investment fund to help reconstruct the country that has been torn apart by Russia\u2019s full-scale invasion since 2022.
Championed by Trump, the deal has stalled since February, when a meeting between the president and his Ukrainian counterpart, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, at the Oval Office unraveled into a live-on-air clash<\/a>.
Rubio did not mention the memorandum when he spoke after talks at Paris’ \u00c9lys\u00e9e Palace with French President Emmanuel Macron that were also attended by U.S. Special Envoy Steve Witkoff.
\u201cThe encouraging reception in\u00a0Paris\u00a0to the U.S. framework shows that peace is possible if all parties commit to reaching an agreement,\u201d State Department spokesperson Tammy Bruce said in a statement Thursday.
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She added that Trump and the U.S. \u201chave now presented to all parties the outlines of a durable and lasting peace.\u201d
Trump told reporters in the Oval Office on Thursday the deal with Ukraine could be signed as early as next week.
\u201cWe\u2019re still working on the details. We\u2019re shooting for around April 26th,\u201d added Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, who was sitting next to the president. He added that the deal was outlined in an 80-page agreement and contained what the two countries had agreed on previously.
Speaking to reporters in Kyiv on Thursday, Zelenskyy said the memorandum indicated \u201cwe have positive, constructive intentions\u201d toward the U.S.
But Trump \u2014 who has previously blamed Ukraine for Russia\u2019s invasion, while falsely accusing Zelenskyy of being a \u201cdictator\u201d <\/a>\u2014 said Thursday that he was \u201cnot happy\u201d with the Ukrainian leader and added that he had spoken to Russian President Vladimir Putin \u201ca lot.\u201d
Asked by NBC News about Rubio\u2019s comments on the ceasefire, Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said Friday there was \u201calready certain progress\u201d related to \u201ca moratorium on not striking energy infrastructure facilities.\u201d
\u201cCertain results have already been achieved, but of course, there are still many difficult discussions ahead,\u201d he added.
Astha Rajvanshi is a reporter for NBC News Digital, based in London. Previously, she worked as a staff writer covering international news for TIME.
Rebecca Shabad is a politics reporter for NBC News based in Washington.
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