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Donald Trump could walk away from Ukraine peace efforts ‘in days’
President Donald Trump may walk away from Ukraine peace efforts in a matter of days if he can’t end the war, a US official has said.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio said: ‘We need to determine very quickly now, and I’m talking about a matter of days, whether or not this is doable.’
Mr Rubio had been in Paris holding high-level talks with European and Ukrainian officials.
He said he and special envoy Steve Witkoff had began ‘to talk about more specific outlines of what it might take to end the war’.
‘If it’s not possible, if we’re so far apart that this is not going to happen then I think the president is probably at a point where he’s going to say we’re done,’ he added.
This is despite Russian president Vladimir Putin releasing an onslaught at the start of the Easter weekend.
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One person was killed this morning on an attack on a factory baking sweets and chocolate.
The head of Sumy district state administration Mykhailo Melnyk said: ‘ ‘Around 5 am, the enemy struck a UAV type ‘Shahed’ on the pastry shop. Damaged production of Easter cakes.
‘The entrepreneur who came for the products was killed. An employee of a confectionery shop sought medical attention.’
The attack on Sumy follows another strike on Palm Sunday that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said was ‘right in the heart of the city’.
It killed 34 people, including two children and injured 117 others.
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