The US state department said Marco Rubio issued the same warning in a phone call on Friday with Nato secretary general Mark Rutte, telling him that “if a clear path to peace does not emerge soon, the United States will step back from efforts to broker peace.”Donald Trump said “Marco is right” that the dynamic of the negotiations between Ukraine and Russia must change, but stopped short of saying he is ready to walk away. “Well, I don’t want to say that,” Trump said. “But we want to see it end.” The Associate Press (AP) reports that Rubio’s comments stepped up pressure on both sides to reach a peace deal, even as the US and Ukraine made progress on a minerals agreement that Trump has sought t...
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