Two days after inking a deal to share future revenues from Ukrainian mineral deposits, the United States is pressuring Ukraine and Russia to come to the negotiating table with more realistic demands of their own to bring an end to the war.
At a Friday press conference, State Department spokeswoman Tammy Bruce said American diplomats will not “fly around the world at the drop of a hat” to mediate in conversations unlikely to yield results.
“We will continue to help, but we will no longer fly around the world as mediators in meetings,” Bruce reiterated. “Now it is up to the two sides, the time has come when they must present and develop concrete ideas on how to end this conflict. It will be up to them.”
On Wednesday, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent sat beside Ukrainian economy minister Yulia Svyrydenko to put pen to paper on the minerals deal in which the…
