Top US officials pull out of Russia-Ukraine ceasefire talks in London

London’s dialogue aimed at securing an armistice between Ukraine and Russia has been downgraded and will no longer include Marco Rubio and special envoy Steve Weekkov.

The Wednesday Conference will instead will be held between the UK, France, Germany, Ukraine and the US, and David Lammy will hold a bilateral meeting with Ukraine.

Keith Kellogg, a special envoy to Ukraine, attends the talks instead of Wednesday’s talk on Wednesday as a “technical meeting.”

The US Secretary of State will focus on dialogue in the Moscow this week, and will focus on diplomatic efforts to end war.

There is a growing speculation that Russia can be willing to stop aggression along the current wire in return for significant concessions.

But it is not clear where the latest conversation is heading or success.

President Ukrainian President VolodyMyr Zelensky did not recognize Occupied Crimia as Russian territory.

Russia has strengthened its attack on Ukraine on Wednesday.

Nine people died Dozens of injuries were injured in the eastern Ukrainian city of Marhaets, when Russian drones hit the bus to carry workers. Officials in the southern region of Kherson said the repetitive attacks of Russia have destroyed major facilities for electricity supply.

Marco Rubio added to the British Foreign Minister of Foreign Affairs on Wednesday, the day before the meeting in London that he would be “real and good technical meetings” and reorganized his planned journey to the UK in the next few months.

Lammy called the conversation “productive” and proceeded with “Speaking continued” ahead of “important moments of Ukraine, England and Euro Atlantic security.”

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On Wednesday morning, the British Foreign Ministry confirmed that the dialogue between the foreign ministers was delayed.

“The official level of conversation will continue, but they are closed in the media,” the statement said.

The White House said Witkoff will travel to Moscow this week for the fourth meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin this week.

All this comes Report of the Financial Times A newspaper that Russia can stop invasion along the existing front and give up territorial claims for areas that do not currently occupy.

A spokesman for Dmitry Peskov, a spokesman for the Kremlin, rejected this report and told the main media that “many fake is being published today.”

Zelensky said that such a proposal was not shared with him and refused to recognize Crimia as Russian territory.

“Ukraine does not legally recognize Crimia’s occupation. There is nothing to talk about.” He said in a news briefing on Tuesday night.

Yuriy Sak, an advisor to the Department of Strategic Industry, the BBC Radio 4, said, “It was not productive to discuss these reports, and it was” naive “to expect Ukraine to change its” unidentified “problem as cream.

SAK added that Ukrainian negotiators will attend the London meeting “very clear and narrow mission,” and achieve a ceasefire to open the way for additional dialogue.

Putin called a temporary ceasefire on the Easter weekend, but British Secretary John Healey told Congressman Tuesday that British military information did not find evidence of the attack.

“Putin went bankrupt, saying that he had proclaimed an Easter ceasefire,” he said. “Putin says he wants peace, but he refused a complete ceasefire, and Putin continues to spend time in the negotiations, saying he wants to end the fight.”

“We can confirm that the Russian military development is slow,” he said.

It is estimated that hundreds of thousands of people have died or injured everywhere since Russia invaded Ukraine on February 24, 2022. It has been listed as a refugee worldwide.

This dispute goes back to 2014 for more than 10 years when Ukraine’s pro -Russian president is overturned. Russia then merged Crimia and supported the armed forces in the bloody fight in eastern Ukraine.