The best US employees are withdrawn from negotiations to terminate the fire in Russia-Ukrana in London

London negotiations aimed at ensuring the termination of fire between Ukraine and Russia are reduced and will no longer include US Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Special Messenger Steve Vikof.

The Wednesday meeting will be held among senior officials from the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Ukraine and the United States, while the United Kingdom Foreign Secretary David Lamie will host a bilateral meeting with his Ukrainian counterpart.

Trump’s Ukraine, Gen Keith Kelloge, attended the negotiations instead of Vitcof and Rubio, who cited the negotiations on Wednesday as “technical meetings”.

Instead, the US Secretary of State will focus on negotiations in Moscow this week as diplomatic efforts to end war is accelerating.

There is an increase in speculation that Russia may be ready to stop its invasion of current front lines in exchange for significant discounts.

However, there is little clarity about where the most conversations are directed or whether they will succeed.

Ukrainian President Volodimir Zelenski excluded the recognition of occupied Crimea as Russian territory after reports suggest that this is considered by the US and the Kremlin.

Russia has intensified its attacks on Ukraine on Wednesday, after a brief lull over Easter as the air strikes stopped.

Nine people were killed And dozens more wreck in the eastern Ukrainian city of Marhanet when a Russian drone hit buses carrying workers.

Officials in the southern region of heron said that a key facility supplying electricity was destroyed after it was under a multiple Russian attack.

On Wednesday, the United Kingdom confirmed that conversations between foreign ministers had been postponed. “Official levels will continue, but they are closed to the media,” the statement said.

British diplomats said they were not completely clear why Rubio and Vitcof had withdrawn from negotiations in London.

The US Department of State accused the logistical reasons, but it was clear that the decision was at the last moment and left the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Marco Rubio talks with the United Kingdom Foreign Secretary on Tuesday night about what he hoped would be “essential and good technical meetings”, adding that he would redirect his planned trip to the United Kingdom in the coming months.

Lami called the conversation “productive”, taking place before “a critical moment for Ukraine, the United Kingdom and the Euro -Atlantic security” as “the talks continue at the tempo”.

US Secretary of State told X: “I look forward to following after current discussions.”

The US decision may be because Americans think they have nothing to say, as they last met in Paris last week – or maybe they have realized that Ukrainians are likely to reject the largest plan to end the US fire and do not want to hear bad news.

The White House said Vitcof would travel to Moscow this week for his fourth meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin.

All this comes against the background of Report at Financial Times The fact that Russia may be ready to stop its invasion of existing front lines and abandon territorial claims to areas it is not currently occupying, in exchange for the recognition of US recognition of Russian sovereignty over Crimea.

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov rejected the report, telling the state media that “many counterfeits are being published today.”

Zelenski said that no such proposals were shared with him and he rejected the recognition of Crimea as Russian territory.

“Ukraine does not legally recognize the Occupation of the Crimea. There is nothing to talk about,” he said during a news briefing on Tuesday night.

The recognition of the illegal annexation of Crimea in Russia would not only be politically impossible to ZEPS to accept, but also contrary to international legal rules after the war that borders should not change by force.

Speaking to the BBC Radio 4 program today, Yuri Sack, an adviser to the Ministry of Strategic Industries of Ukraine, said it was not productive to discuss “similar reports and added that” naive “is to expect Ukraine to change its position on issues that are not negotiated as Crimea.

Sack added that Ukrainian negotiators would attend the London meeting at a “very clear, narrow mandate” to reach the cessation of fire to “pave the way for more conversations.”

Putin called a temporary truce on the Easter weekend, but the United Kingdom Defense Minister John Heli told the House of Commons on Tuesday that British military intelligence had not found evidence of attacking attacks.

“While Putin said he had declared an Easter truce, he had broken it,” he said. “While Putin says he wants peace, he has rejected a complete cessation of fire, and while Putin says he wants to end the fighting, he continues to play for time in negotiations.”

Heli added that he could “confirm the Russian military passage” is “slowing” while the country continues to “press Ukraine on a number of fronts”.

It is estimated that hundreds of thousands of people were killed or injured from all countries since Russia invaded Ukraine on February 24, 2022, and currently nearly seven million Ukrainians are currently listed as refugees All over the world.

The conflict has returned more than a decade until 2014, when the pro -Russian president of Ukraine was overthrown. Then Russia annexed the Crimea and supported the fighters in bloody battles in Eastern Ukraine.