After speaking with his British counterpart, Foreign Secretary David Lammy, Rubio said he was rescheduling his trip to the United Kingdom to take place in the coming months.
US envoy Keith Kellogg, seen here with Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky, will attend the London talks in place of Secretary of State Marco Rubio. (Photo by Sergei Supinsky/ AFP)
The talks will go ahead and US President Donald Trump’s Ukraine envoy General Keith Kellogg will attend in his place, Rubio said.
“In this particular instance, while the meetings in London are still occurring, he will not be attending. But that is not a statement regarding the meetings. It’s a statement about logistical issues in his schedule,” State Department spokesperson Tammy Bruce told reporters.
Since taking office in January, Trump has pressured Ukraine to agree to a ceasefire while easing many of the measures the Biden administration had taken to punish Russia for its 2022 full-scale invasion of its neighbour.
Meanwhile, new reports claim Russian President Vladimir Putin offered at a meeting in St Petersburg this month to halt Russia’s invasion across the front line and relinquish its claims to full control of four Ukrainian regions.
And US website Axios is reporting that Kellogg will come to the London talks armed with an American-designed peace framework that includes US recognition of Crimea as part of Russia and unofficial recognition of Russian control of nearly all areas it has occupied since the war began.
With Reuters
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