US pulling out of Ukraine-Russia peace talks after mineral deal

Just days after striking a deal with Ukraine involving rare earth minerals, the Trump administration

appeared to make a major announcement when it comes to diplomacy, and the president's vow to end the Russia-Ukraine war quickly

The U.S. will no longer engage in what is often referred to as shuttle diplomacy

State Department spokeswoman Tammy Bruce said Thursday the U.S. will not be the mediators in these negotiations

And the secretaries also made it very clear that while our style will change, the methodology

of how we contribute to this will change in that we will not be the mediators

That is what I mentioned on Tuesday and the nature of how this would change is we would

not, we certainly were still committed to it and we'll help and do what we can, but

we are not going to fly around the world at the drop of a hat to mediate meetings that

it is now between the two parties and now now is the time that they need to present and develop

concrete ideas about how this conflict is going to end. It's going to be up to them

Last month, Secretary of State Marco Rubio had warned the United States was not going to continue

this endeavor for weeks and months on end and that the U.S. would do what it can on the margins

and will help whenever the two countries are ready to have peace. Thursday night on Fox News

Rubio told host Sean Hannity this is not our war Not that a war in Ukraine is not important but I would say what happening with China is more important in the long term for the future of the world As for the minerals deal the Kiev Post reports

the Trump administration told Congress it intends to send $50 million worth of defense-related goods to Ukraine

In this case, the State Department would allow an American company to sell defense equipment directly to a foreign buyer

without going through the Pentagon's foreign military sales program. Newsweek reports that between 2015 and 2023, the U.S. okayed the direct sale of more than $1.6 billion worth of defense goods to Ukraine

including more than $232 million in ammunition, according to the State Department

The minerals deal calls for the United States and Ukraine to share the proceeds of sales of titanium, uranium, lithium and copper

Those minerals are used in the defense, energy and technology industries. A joint fund would be divided 50-50 between the two countries

with some of the money going to the reconstruction of war-decimated Ukraine

The deal does not contain any language of debt obligations that the country owes the United States

for its financial and weapons support during the war with Russia. The Trump administration has called the minerals deal historic

as it looks for financial security guarantees from Ukraine as peace negotiations to end the war drag on

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