US President Donald Trump is still interested in resolving the conflict in Ukraine and wants to see concrete actions to end it, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said.
“This is not his war, but he wants it to end“, the head of the foreign policy department said in an interview with the Fox News channel.
According to Rubio, Trump is frustrated that “his good interaction and phone calls with Vladimir Putin are not leading to anything“. “It is time to take action and the president has made it very clear. "He's losing patience," the secretary of state added.
On July 14, Trump said that the United States would impose import tariffs of approximately 100 percent on Russia and its trading partners if Washington and Moscow did not reach an agreement to resolve the conflict in Ukraine within 50 days. He also said that Washington had decided to continue transferring weapons and military equipment to Kiev if Europe paid for these supplies. NATO would coordinate this process, the White House chief of staff said.