State Department: The United States will no longer mediate in negotiations between Russia and Ukraine

The State Department announced the US refusal from the role of mediators in the negotiations between Russia and Ukraine.

The United States has changed its approach to the conflict in Ukraine and will no longer mediate negotiations between representatives of Moscow and Kiev. This was announced on May 1 by State Department spokeswoman Tammy Bruce during a briefing:

“The President wants in every action that we’ve taken as a nation to do it diplomatically; that he – clearly, because of the commitment to it. And yet he knows also that there is another part of the world, a whole globe that needs some attention. And the Secretary’s also made it very clear that while our style will change, the methodology of how we contribute to this will change in that we will not be the mediators…

We certainly are still committed to it and will help and do what we can. But we are not going to fly around the world at the drop of a hat to mediate meetings, that it is now between the two parties, and now – now is the time that they need to present and develop concrete ideas about how this conflict is going to end. It’s going to be up to them...

So I think getting them to the table, changing the idea of the world of what’s possible, and this critical minerals deal are the – are three really very big things”, she said.

On April 27, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov noted that negotiations with the United States on the conflict in Ukraine were moving in the right direction. He recalled that the American Secretary of State Marc Rubio expressed the opinion that during the negotiations Washington “better understood Moscow's position, as well as the underlying causes of the conflict.”

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