• State Dept Secy says we have to decide “within a few days”.
• “A lot of other really important things going on,” says Rubio.
• Trump had promised to end the war on first day of office.

US President Donald Trump will go away from trying to mediate a Russia Ukraine peace agreement within a few days, unless there are clear signs of an agreement, US State Secretary Marco Rubio said Friday.

“We will not continue with this endeavor for weeks and months after. So we have to decide very quickly now, and I am talking about a question of a day if this is possible for the next few weeks,” Rubio said in Paris after meeting European and Ukrainian leaders.

“The president feels very strongly about it. He has dedicated a lot of time and energy to this … This is important, but there are a lot of other really important things going on that deserve just as much, if no more attention.”

Rubio’s warning came in the midst of signs of some progress in US conversations with Ukraine.

Trump said on Thursday he expected to sign an agreement with Kiev next week that would give the United States access to Ukraine’s minerals. An attempt to sign a mineral pact in February fell apart after Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy’s clash with Trump and Vice President JD Vance in the Oval Office.

Following the conversations in Paris on Thursday-the first material, high level and personal conversations about Trump’s Peace Push, which has included European powers of Rubio that an American peace frame received a “encouraging reception.” Zelenskiy’s office called the conversations constructive and positive.

Rubio’s comments Friday emphasized the mounting of frustrations in the White House over a lack of progress in push to run a growing list of geopolitical challenges.

During his election campaign, Trump promised to end the war in Ukraine within his first 24 hours of the White House. He moderated this claim of accession and hinted an agreement before April or May as obstacles mounted.

Rubio said he was talking to Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov after the Paris negotiations and had told him they had been constructive, and also informed him of “some of the elements of” the American peace frame.

Rubio said the question of US security guarantees as part of every deal came up in the conversations in Paris without going into.

He said that security guarantees were a problem “we can solve in a kind in a way that is acceptable to everyone,” but “We have greater challenges that we need to find out if it is even possible in the short term”.

He said it was clear that a peace agreement would be difficult to strike, but that there should be signs it could be done soon.

“There is no one who says this can be done in 12 hours. But we will see how far apart it is and whether these differences can even be narrowed if it is even possible to get movement within the period we have in mind,” he said.

Neither the French Presidency nor the Ministry of Foreign Affairs immediately returned requests for comment.