A “really important week” in peace talks is coming up after President Donald Trump met with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky at the Vatican over the weekend amid the funeral for Pope Francis, according to the Trump administration’s top diplomat.
Russia and Ukraine are “closer in general than they’ve been any time in the last three years” to reaching an end to their war, Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Sunday on NBC’s “Meet The Press,” although he conceded the two sides have not yet reached a resolution.
This past week, Rubio told moderator Kristen Welker, “has really been about figuring out how close are these sides really, and are they close enough that this merits a continued investment of our time as a mediator in this regard.”
Rubio said he thinks it would be “silly” to set a specific date for a peace agreement. “I can just tell you that almost…
