{"id":11741,"date":"2025-05-20T07:48:26","date_gmt":"2025-05-20T07:48:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/?p=11741"},"modified":"2025-05-20T07:48:29","modified_gmt":"2025-05-20T07:48:29","slug":"zelensky-the-u-s-should-not-step-back-from-peace-efforts-between-russia-and-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/2025\/05\/20\/zelensky-the-u-s-should-not-step-back-from-peace-efforts-between-russia-and-ukraine\/","title":{"rendered":"Zelensky: The U.S. Should not step back from peace efforts between Russia and Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>KABUL: Following remarks by U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky stated that Washington must not withdraw from ongoing peace efforts and discussions between Kyiv and Moscow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In a statement on the X account on Monday night, Zelensky emphasized that Putin would be the only beneficiary of the U.S. stepping back from these negotiations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He noted that he had two phone conversations with the U.S. President the previous night\u2014first individually and then with leaders from France, Germany, Italy, Finland, and the European Union.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Zelensky remarked that the situation has reached a critical juncture, with the world watching whether leaders can establish a real ceasefire between Ukraine and Russia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He stated that Ukraine is ready for a complete and unconditional ceasefire in bilateral talks with Trump.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Ukrainian leader also mentioned that if the Kremlin is unwilling to agree to such a ceasefire, Europe and the West should impose stronger sanctions and pressures on Russia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is worth noting that the previous day, the U.S. Secretary of State warned that if peace efforts between Ukraine and Russia do not yield results, the U.S. would withdraw&nbsp;from&nbsp;them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KABUL: Following remarks by U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky stated that Washington must not withdraw from ongoing peace efforts and discussions between Kyiv and Moscow. In a statement on the X account on Monday night, Zelensky emphasized that Putin would be the only beneficiary of the U.S. stepping back from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":11748,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[73],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11741"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11741"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11741\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11749,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11741\/revisions\/11749"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}