US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said that the issue of territorial claims to Donbassdiscussed in US-brokered talks to end Russia’s war on Ukraine, remains unresolved. He called it “very complicated,” the BBC reported.
“That’s the line we still have to cross, that’s still a gap.
But at least we were able to narrow down the set of topics to one central one,” Marco Rubio revealed at his hearing before the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
The next round of trilateral negotiations between representatives of Russia, Ukraine and the USA in Abu Dhabi is scheduled for February 1.
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Rubio said the next round of talks could include U.S. representatives, but Trump representatives Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner, who participated in the previous round, will not take part in them.
The first tripartite negotiations between the delegations of Ukraine, Russia and the USA since the beginning of the war were held on January 23 and 24 in Abu Dhabi. The main topic of the talks, according to the information of participants from the Ukrainian delegation after the end of the meeting, were the possible conditions for ending the war.
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However, Russia’s territorial claims extend beyond the Donbass
All three countries rated the discussions as fruitful, but the president of Ukraine announced that Russia wants to get all of the Donbas – something that Ukraine will not accept.
