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Vice president JD Vance warned on Wednesday that the United States would “run away” unless Russia and Ukraine agree a peace agreement because envoys from Washington, Kiev and European countries gathered for degraded conversations in Great -Britain.
“We have issued a very explicit proposal to both the Russians and the Ukrainians, and it is time for them to either say 'yes', or for the United States to walk away from this process,” Vance told reporters in India.
American media reported that President Donald Trump was ready to accept recognition of a cancelled land on Crimea as Russian territory, and Vance said that Landwaps would be of fundamental importance for every deal.
“That means that the Ukrainians and the Russians both have to give up part of the territory that they currently have,” he added.
The reports said that the proposal was first raised last week during a meeting with European countries in Paris.
The newest diplomation round is amid a new wave of Russian air strikes that broke up a short Easter Armistice.
A Russian drone attack on a bus that transported employees in the southeastern city of Marganet, killed nine people and was still injured at least 30, said the regional governor of Dnipropetrovsk on Wednesday.
Ukrainian authorities also reported strikes in the regions of Kiev, Kharkiv, Poltava and Odesa.
In Russia, one person was injured by shelling in the Belgorod region.
'Work for Peace'
The British Foreign Minister David Lammy should have led a meeting of Foreign Ministers in London on Wednesday, but his ministry said that the conversations had been relegated, a sign of the difficulties surrounding the negotiations.
“The Ukrainian peace talks that are postponed today will be postponed at the Foreign Affairs Ministers. Discussions will continue at the official level,” said the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov told reporters that “as far as we understand, it was not yet possible to reconcile positions about any problems, and therefore this meeting did not take place”.
The American Ukraine envoy Keith Kellogg is still expected to, together with Emmanuel Bonne, diplomatic adviser from French President Emmanuel Macron.
Andriy Yermak, a top employee of the Ukrainian President Volodyymyr Zensky, said he had arrived in London with Minister of Defense Rustem Umerov and Foreign Minister Andriy Sybiga, who will “probably” meet Lammy.
“Despite everything, we will work for peace,” wrote Yermak on Telegram.
A source of Ukraine -Presidentenschap later told AFP that the delegation would meet Kellogg, and that “there will be more meetings with Europeans, various meetings”.
The American presidential envoy Steve Witkoff is to visit Moscow this week.
According to the Financial Times, President Vladimir Putin Witkoff told that he was willing to stop the invasion and freeze the current front line if the Russian sovereignty about the Crimean protection was announced in 2014, was recognized.
Peskov replied by saying that “according to the Ria Novosti News Agency, many fakes are being published” at the moment “.
Zensky said on Tuesday that his country would only be ready for direct conversations with Russia after a cease -the fire, although the Kremlin has said that it cannot hurry -the fire.
Trump promised the campaign track to close a deal between Moscow and Kyiv in 24 hours, but has not since obtained concessions from Putin to put his troops in Ukraine.
He said he hoped that an agreement could be beaten “this week” during the weekend.
Trump 'frustrated'
State Secretary Marco Rubio said he had presented an American plan to end the war and discussed it with the Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov during a telephone conversation after the Paris meeting last week.
Both Rubio and Trump have warned that the United States could run away from peace talks, unless it saw fast progress.
Trump “wants to see this war end … and he was frustrated by both sides of this war, and he announced that very much,” said his spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt on Tuesday.
Rubio had said in Paris that he would go to London if he thought his presence could be useful.
But Lammy wrote at the end of Tuesday on X that he had a “productive call” with Rubio instead.
Trump proposed an unconditional ceasefire in March -the fire, the principle of which was accepted by Kiev but was rejected by Putin.
The White House welcomed a separate agreement from both parties to stop the attacks on energy infrastructure for 30 days, but the Kremlin has said that it is of the opinion that Moratorium expired.
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