Turin, 24 Oct. (LaPresse) – Russia’s war against Ukraine “is actually about the Donbass”. This was stated by US Secretary of State Marco Rubio in comments to the press reported by Radio Liberty. “Whilst people continue to talk about a war in Ukraine, this war is about the Donbass. It concerns a region of the country. Essentially, it concerns 11 per cent of a part of that country that Russia wants to conquer, but which it is unable to take by military means, and which Ukraine is not prepared to cede,” he explained. “And there are valid reasons why it does not want to do so: sovereignty and its own long-term security,” he added. Rubio emphasised that the conflict cannot be resolved militarily and can only be brought to an end through diplomacy. The question, he said, is whether “it is possible to find a compromise, for which both sides will have to make certain concessions in order to bring the war to an end”. “However complicated it may be, it is impossible to achieve this unless both sides are sitting at the table talking. And we are happy to play a mediating role in this regard. That is precisely what we are trying to do. We are not claiming that simply putting them in the same room will solve the problem, but we have no chance of resolving it if we cannot get them to sit at the same table,” he emphasised.
Ukraine, Rubio: “The war is actually about the Donbass”
Turin, 24 Oct. (LaPresse) – Russia’s war against Ukraine “is actually about the Donbass”. This was stated by US Secretary of State Marco Rubio in comments to the press reported by Radio Liberty. “Whilst people continue to talk about a war in Ukraine, this war is about the Donbass. It concerns a region of the country. Essentially, it concerns 11 per cent of a part of that country that Russia wants to conquer, but which it is unable to take by military means, and which Ukraine is not prepared to cede,” he explained. “And there are valid reasons why it does not want to do so: sovereignty and its own long-term security,” he added. Rubio emphasised that the conflict cannot be resolved militarily and can only be brought to an end through diplomacy. The question, he said, is whether “it is possible to find a compromise, for which both sides will have to make certain concessions in order to bring the war to an end”. “However complicated it may be, it is impossible to achieve this unless both sides are sitting at the table talking. And we are happy to play a mediating role in this regard. That is precisely what we are trying to do. We are not claiming that simply putting them in the same room will solve the problem, but we have no chance of resolving it if we cannot get them to sit at the same table,” he emphasised.