If Ukraine and Russia have reached a peace agreement, Western countries will have to lift sanctions with the Russian Federation. However, the final settings parameters must satisfy all parties, and the European Union should also be involved in this process.

About this during online briefing based on the results of American-Russian negotiations, which were held on February 18 in Saudi Arabia, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio. He added that all parties should make concessions, but what would have to sacrifice the Russian Federation, did not say.

" There are sanctions that were imposed as a result of this conflict. Therefore, I would like to say that in order to stop any conflict it is necessary that all parties make concessions, ”said the head of the US State Department.

Rubio added that the final parameters of a peace agreement must arrange all parties, and the EU should also be involved in the settlement process. He also added that US President Donald Trump is counting on a “fair end” of war in Ukraine in order to avoid its renewal in a few years.

Negotiations in Saudi Arabia were the first step on the way to the world, Rubio added. However, the US State Department stated that specific results following the results of the first from the beginning of the war in Ukraine, there was no public meeting between the delegations of Russia and the United States.

“One meeting is not enough to establish a durable world,” said Tammy Bruce, official representative of the department in a commentary for Bloomberg.

At the same time, the European Commissioner for Economics, Valdis Dombrovskis, has already warned that the European Union will continue its own sanctions policy regarding Russia, even if the United States has resolved sanctions from the aggressor country. In this regard, Europe is already developing the 16th package of sanctions, which will affect the purchase of aluminum, shadow oil fleet, ports, airports and banks.