Trump says Ukraine-Russia talks ‘coming to a head’ and ‘no one is playing’ him in push to end war

Trump’s comments occurred after Secretary of State Marco Rubio warned the most early Friday that the United States can “move forward” to try to ensure a Peace Agreement Russia-Ukraine if there is no progress in the next few days, after months of efforts have not ended the fighting.

“If for any reason one of the two parts makes it very difficult, we are going to say that you are silly, you are dumb and we are only going to take a pass,” Trump told the White House journalists.

When asked if Russian President Vladimir Putin was dragging his feet in the negotiations, Trump replied: “I hope not.”

Rubio spoke in Paris on Friday after historical conversations between American, Ukrainian and European officials produced contours for the steps towards peace and seemed to make some long -awaited progress.

A new meeting is expected next week in London, and Rubio suggested that it could be decisive to determine if the Trump administration continues its participation.

“Now we are reaching a point where we must decide whether this is possible or not,” Rubio told journalists when he left. “Because if not, then I think we will move on.”

“It’s not our war,” said Rubio.

“We have other priorities to focus.”

He said that the US administration wants to decide “in a matter of days.”

Their comments arrived when the United States and Ukraine are approaching a long -standing agreement that gives access to the United States to the vast mineral resources of Ukraine, which has been intertwined with the impulse of peace of President Donald Trump. Trump said Thursday: “We have a mineral agreement”, and Ukraine Minister of Economy said Friday that the two countries signed a memorandum of intention before a possible fuller agreement later.

The framework of the Mineral Agreement had stagnated in February after a contentious Oval office meeting between Trump, the US vice president JD Vance and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. Negotiations have resumed since then.

Despite the apparent American impatience with the peace efforts, Rubio called the Constructive Paris conversations.

“No one rejected anything, nobody got up from the table or left.”

Rubio did not highlight Russia or Ukraine as blocking peace efforts. He said he informed Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, about the contours that arose when they spoke after Paris speaks, but did not say how Lavrov reacted.

After weeks of tensions with European allies, Rubio said European negotiators proved to be useful. “The United Kingdom, France and Germany can help us move the ball on this.”

The conversations occurred as European concerns grow about Trump’s preparation to approach Russia. They marked the first time since the inauguration of Trump that the best US, Ukrainian and European officials met to discuss the end of the war, which has raised the greatest security challenge for Europe since World War II.

The meetings addressed the security guarantees for Ukraine in the future, but Rubio would not discuss any possible role of the United States in that. It is considered that some kind of American support to Ukraine is crucial to ensure that Russia does not attack again after reaching a peace agreement.

Rubio and presidential envoy Steve Witkoff have helped lead the efforts to seek peace, and Witkoff has met three times with Putin, Rubio said. Several rounds of negotiations in Saudi Arabia have been held.

Moscow has effectively refused to accept a high integral fire that Trump has pressed and Ukraine has supported. Russia has stopped it in the mobilization efforts of Ukraine and western weapons supplies, which are demands rejected by Ukraine.

Meanwhile, Russia maintained a series of mortal attacks in the Ukrainian cities, according to officials there, hurting dozens of civilians days after the missiles killed at least 34 during the celebrations of Palm Sunday in the city of Northern Sumy.

A person died and more than 60 were hurt when Russia hit Jharkiv, the second largest city in Ukraine, early in the day, the Ukraine emergency service reported. Mayor Ihor Terekhov said the ammunition cluster hit a “densely populated” neighborhood four times.

The Russian drones also pointed to a bakery in Sumy, less than a week after the deadly strike of Palm Sunday, killing a client and hurting an employee, said the regional prosecutor’s office. The photos published by the agency showed rows of packed pastels inside a devastated building, covered with thick dust, while a huge hole separated from the wall behind them and rubble stacked on the floor.

Last Sunday’s strike against Sumy, which resulted in massive victims, was the second large -scale missile attack that claimed civil lives in just over a week. Some 20 people, including nine children, died on April 4 when the missiles hit the hometown of Kryvyi Rih de Zelenskyy.

The US Minerals Agreement is expected, the Ukrainian Economy Minister Yuliia Svydenko, said he signed with the United States Secretary of the United States, Scott Besent, allane the way for significant investments, modernization of long -term infrastructure and cooperation.