{"id":604132,"date":"2025-11-30T22:19:13","date_gmt":"2025-11-30T22:19:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/604132\/"},"modified":"2025-11-30T22:19:13","modified_gmt":"2025-11-30T22:19:13","slug":"ukraine-talks-productive-but-more-work-needed-rubio-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/604132\/","title":{"rendered":"Ukraine talks ‘productive’ but more work needed, Rubio says"},"content":{"rendered":"

As Sunday’s talks began, Umerov said: “We are discussing about the future of Ukraine, about the security of Ukraine, about no repetition of aggression of Ukraine, about prosperity of Ukraine, about how to rebuild Ukraine”. <\/p>\n

“US is hearing us,” he said, speaking in English. “US is supporting us. US is working beside us.”<\/p>\n

He later described the talks as “productive and successful” while Rubio said they had been “very productive and useful”.<\/p>\n

Trump said earlier he would send Witkoff and possibly also Kushner to Moscow this week to meet President Vladimir Putin to discuss the peace plan which has been much revised. <\/p>\n

One crucial unresolved issue is the fate of Ukrainian territory that Russia has either annexed or controls.<\/p>\n

The talks in Florida were “not easy”, a source who is said to be close to the Ukrainian delegation told AFP news agency.<\/p>\n

“But everyone is trying to be constructive and find a solution,” the source added. <\/p>\n

Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky is due to visit Paris on Monday for talks with French President Emmanuel Macron, a strong ally. <\/p>\n

Tens of thousands of soldiers have been killed or injured, as well as thousands of civilians, and at least seven million people have become refugees, external<\/a> since Russia invaded on 24 February 2022. <\/p>\n

The conflict between the two ex-Soviet states stretches back to 2014 when Ukraine’s pro-Russian president was overthrown and Russia responded by annexing Crimea and supporting armed uprisings in eastern Ukraine. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As Sunday’s talks began, Umerov said: “We are discussing about the future of Ukraine, about the security of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":604133,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[12,26],"class_list":{"0":"post-604132","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world","8":"tag-news","9":"tag-world"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115640976241855568","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=604132"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604132\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/604133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=604132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=604132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=604132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}