”He (Trump) just doesn’t understand how two countries fighting such a brutal, horrific, bloody war can’t agree on how to end it. He wants it to end and has done a lot to make that happen. He has invested a lot of political capital in this,” the US secretary of state noted.
He added that the easiest scenario for Trump would be to “simply continue the previous policies that have led to prolonged conflict,” but “the president has invested a lot of political capital in this.”
“Steve (Witkoff), I don’t know how many times, at his own expense, has traveled around the world trying to get this thing done. We have a lot of people who have invested a lot of energy in this, and I think we’ve made progress in narrowing down the issues, but unfortunately, some of them, unfortunately, remain very, very difficult,” Rubio emphasized.
On the evening of February 25, Zelensky said that in a telephone conversation with Trump, he discussed preparations for a bilateral meeting between the American and Ukrainian delegations to end the war, as well as trilateral negotiations with the participation of Russia.
According to media reports, in a phone call on February 25, Trump told Zelensky that he wanted the war to end within a month.
On February 24, Trump said in an address to Congress that Washington was “working hard” to end the Russian-Ukrainian war.
