Rubio denies Ukraine was demanded to give up Crimea - Polish Foreign Minister
Photo: Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski (Getty Images)
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio denied that Ukraine was required to give up Crimea. He made this statement in a conversation with Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski, Gazeta Wyborcza reports.
The Polish Foreign Minister had a phone conversation with the US Secretary of State on Wednesday, April 23. Sikorski noted that Rubio denied that Ukraine was required to recognize Crimea as Russian.
The Polish minister said that he could tell them, because it would serve the cause, that US Secretary of State Marco Rubio had denied media reports stating that the United States had demanded that Ukraine legally give up Crimea. He added that it was an important signal
According to him, Rubio also assured that Ukraine, as a sovereign state, should have the right to develop its army and defense industry.
US demands on Crimea
Earlier, Bloomberg reported that the US is considering recognizing Crimea as Russian in the context of a peace deal between Russia and Ukraine. A few days later, Western media published information about Donald Trump's possible peace plan that would recognize Crimea as part of Russia, Ukraine's rejection of NATO, and other conditions.
Following the media reports, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy categorically stated that Ukraine would not recognize its territories as part of Russia.
This week, on April 23, after a meeting of representatives of Ukraine, Europe, and the United States in London, where Secretary of State Marco Rubio was not present, Trump was outraged by Zelenskyy's position and said that his words complicated a peaceful settlement.
Zelenskyy also said that London had developed new proposals for a peace agreement, taking into account Ukraine's position. They have already been passed on to Trump.
