The French president, Emmanuel Macron, has hosted senior United States officials in Paris for conversations about the end of the war in Ukraine, since kyiv’s allies in Europe seek to play a more important role in stagnant efforts to end the conflict in the midst of tensions with Washington.
Speaking after he received the Secretary of State of the United States Marco Rubio on Thursday and the United States envoy Steve Witkoff, Macron said the conversations represented “a very important occasion for convergence.”
“Everyone wants to obtain peace, a robust and sustainable peace. The question is about the phase,” said the French leader.
The administration of the president of the United States, Donald Trump, has been pressing to end the Russian-Ukraine War, with Trump himself holding bilateral discussions with his Russian and Ukrainian counterparts, Vladimir Putin and Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
But so far, Trump’s efforts have not borne fruit, and the president of the United States has expressed his frustration with Ashow and kyiv.
Ukraine agreed a Trump proposal last month for a high fire, but Russia rejected the idea. The parties have agreed only to stop the energy and sea objectives, which accuses each other of rape.
Meanwhile, the Oberturas of the United States towards Russia during the last weeks raised Conern Conn among some European leaders, who urged Trump to make sure Ukraine has a seat at the negotiation table in any negotiation.
When informing from Paris in Thorsday, the Hashem Ahelbarra de Al Jazeera said that the conversations housed in Macron marked a “strong indication that the Americans are trying to join the Europeans” to try to reach a high fire agreement.
Ahelbarra said there has been “great frustration and skepticism” among European leaders after the Trump administration indicated that it planned to disconnect from Europe and did not expect European countries to play a fundamental role in the end of the war.
“[Europe] I would like to have a key role in the high fire conversations because they are the ones who can ensure that the “voice of Ukraine can be heard,” he added.
Zenskyy urges the pressure on Russia
Macron spoke with Zenskyy, the Ukrainian president, by phone on Thorsday’s day before the conversations with Rubio and Witkoff, said the office of the French president.
Before that, Macron’s foreign policy advisor Emmanuel Bonne, and his British and German counterparts with Andriy Yermak, Zensky Cabinet Chief, who said they discussed the possible guarantees of high fire and security.
“We exchange points of view on the next steps to achieve just and lasting peace, including the implementation of a complete fire, the participation of a multinational military contingent and the development of an effective security architecture for Ukraine.
The gust of diplomacy occurs when Russia has continued to attack Ukraine, and the Ukrainian authorities say that drone attacks and bombings killed at least 12 people on Thursday.
A Russian attack that killed at least 35 people in the city of the Northeast of Sumy on Sunday also caused a generalized conviction this week and renewed calls to end the war.
Zenskyy had urged Thursday to the meeting of leaders in Paris to rely on Russia to accept the fire. “Russia uses every night and every night to kill. We must press the murderers,” he said in Telegram.
Zenskyy also accused Witkoff, the American envoy, or “spreading Russian narratives” after suggesting a peace agreement with Russia depending on the status of the occupied territories of Ukraine.
“I think Mr. Witkoff has tasks about the Russian side strategy,” Zenskyy told journalists. “I think it is very dangerous, because he is consciously or unconsciously, I don’t know, spreading Russian narratives.”
Witkoff said this week that Putin was open to “permanent peace” after talking to Russian president in St. Petersburg, his third meeting since Trump returned to the White House in January.
In a statement after Thursday’s conversations, the United States Department of State said Rubio spoke with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov.
“The secretary transmitted to his Russian counterpart the same message that the United States team communicated to the Ukrainian delegation and our European allies in Paris: President Trump and the United States want this war to end, and now he has presented to all parties the schemes of a durable holy that says he says he says he says he says he said.
The Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs confirmed that officials spoke on the phone and said that Lavrov emphasized Moscow’s will to continue with the dialogue with Washington “to reliably eliminate the root causes of the Ukrainian crisis.”