Global News Podcast 제공: US threatens to walk away from Ukraine peace talks, 2025년 4월 18일
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This is the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service. I'm Janet Jaleel, and at 13 Hours GMT on Friday the 18th of April, these are our main stories. The US threatens to walk away from Ukraine peace talks if real progress isn't made within days.
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But first, time is running out to agree a peace deal between Russia and Ukraine. Donald Trump famously promised to end the war within a day if he became US President. But having failed to extract any major concessions from Russia, Mr Trump has recently been showing growing signs of frustration.
And this week again blamed Ukraine for starting the war. Now his top diplomat Marco Rubio has warned that if there isn't real progress soon, America will simply walk away. This despite Ukraine taking the first step towards signing a controversial minerals deal with the US.
After a day of talks in Paris with European leaders, Mr Rubio sounded this warning.
So we came here yesterday to try to figure out very soon, and I'm talking about a matter of days, not a matter of weeks, whether or not this is the war that can be ended. If it can, we're prepared to do whatever we can to facilitate that and make sure that it happens, that it ends in a durable and just way. If it's not possible, if we're so far apart that this is not going to happen, then I think the president is probably at a point where he's going to say, well, we're done.
We'll do what we can on the margins. We'll be ready to help whenever you're ready to have peace. But we're not going to continue with this endeavor for weeks and months on end.
So what could this mean for Ukraine? Our correspondent there is James Waterhouse.
It's a perilous political juncture for Ukraine because it could mean that America brings in more punitive measures for Moscow in terms of further sanctions to try and bring it to the table. But hearing Mr. Rubio there, that seems like America would turn its back. And when you consider that American military aid for Ukraine is just going to dry up, the Trump administration hasn't signed off any further packages, none has been put in front of Congress.
He hasn't used any presidential drawdown powers to sign off military aid. That would amount to leaving Ukraine to continue to fight this war with the Europeans still working out what kind of troop presence they could provide, what kind of weapons manufacturing they could uphold. And it's widely accepted that that collective weight of Europe and Ukraine is still insufficient to keep Russia at bay in the long term, despite all of the positive sounds coming from Paris for the meeting of European, American and Ukrainian officials.
It seems that actually we are more on a knife edge in regards to the course of this war.
James Waterhouse. Well, the Kremlin spokesman was asked for his response to the US threat to abandon the Ukraine peace talks. Dmitry Peskov said it was up to the White House to answer that question, but insisted that some progress had been made, for instance, a temporary moratorium on striking Ukrainian energy infrastructure, which Russia now says has expired.
Contacts going on are quite complicated because naturally the topic of peace settlement in Ukraine is not an easy one. Russia is committed to resolving this conflict, ensuring its own interests, and is open to dialogue. We continue to do this.
So what could this latest US threat mean for Moscow? Our Russia editor is Steve Rosenberg.
Well, just listening to Dmitry Peskov there, he doesn't seem to be overly concerned by the warning from Marco Rubio. There's no sense that Russia is changing its position. What the Russians are saying is, yep, things are not going very easily in negotiations, but he said it was up to America to decide whether to pull out or not.
So I don't think there's any change in position there. But I think it's important to realise, to keep in mind, that we're only seeing the tip of the iceberg here. We are not privy to all the conversations that have been going on around the tables, and that includes the conversations between Donald Trump's envoy, Steve Witkoff, and Vladimir Putin a few days ago in St. Petersburg.
That includes the conversations that went on in Paris yesterday. Clearly, there's a lot of diplomatic activity going on, high-level diplomatic activity. So I think we need to wait and see what happens in the next few days, but there does seem to be a frustration on the part of the Trump administration that this deal that Donald Trump thought he could get in 24 hours, but he hasn't got it yet.
And there's a lot of fear from Ukraine as we were just hearing. We heard President Zelensky talking about Mr. Wyckoff of spreading Russian narratives. If the US was to walk away from the peace talks, surely that would suit Russia given that it has such a bigger military machine.
우크라이나에서는 우리가 방금 들은 것처럼 큰 우려 (fear) 가 퍼지고 있다. 젤렌스키 대통령은 와이코프 씨가 러시아의 주장 (narratives) 을 퍼뜨리고 있다고 말하기도 했다. 만약 미국이 평화 회담에서 손을 뗀다면 (walk away from), 압도적인 군사력을 가진 러시아에 유리하게 작용할 것 (would suit Russia) 이라는 것은 분명하다.
Well, I think Ukraine has more to worry about this than Russia does. Certainly, you mentioned Russian narratives. Yes, for months now we've seen senior US officials, particularly Mr. Wyckoff, repeating Russian narratives.
He's been effusive in his praise of Vladimir Putin. And clearly the Trump administration wants to get on and repair relations with Russia. There's talk about potential lucrative deals, economic partnership.
글쎄, 러시아보다는 우크라이나가 걱정할 일이 더 많다고 생각한다. 물론 러시아의 주장을 (narratives) 언급했는데, 실제로 지난 몇 달간 미국 고위 관료들, 특히 와이코프 씨는 러시아의 주장을 반복해왔다.
그는 블라디미르 푸틴에 대해 지나칠 정도로 찬사를 보냈고 (effusive in his praise), 트럼프 행정부가 러시아와의 관계를 회복하려는 의도 (wants to get on and repair relations) 를 갖고 있음은 분명하다. 또한 잠재적으로 수익성 높은 거래 (lucrative deals) 와 경제적 협력 관계에 대한 논의도 오가고 있다.
So while the Ukraine peace talks have been going on, at the same time, the US and Russia have been getting on separately, trying to repair their relations. And there's no suggestion that if the Trump administration wants to walk away from the Ukraine peace talks, that it would stop its bilateral discussions with Russia.
그래서 우크라이나 평화 회담이 진행되는 동시에, 미국과 러시아는 별도로 관계를 회복하려는 움직임을 보여왔다 (trying to repair their relations). 그리고 트럼프 행정부가 우크라이나 평화 회담에서 손을 떼려는 (walk away from) 의사를 보이더라도, 러시아와의 양자 간 논의를 중단하겠다는 징후는 전혀 없다 (no suggestion).
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