The State Department announced the US refusal from the role of mediators in the negotiations between Russia and Ukraine.

The United States has changed its approach to the conflict in Ukraine and will no longer mediate negotiations between representatives of Moscow and Kiev. This was announced on May 1 by State Department spokeswoman Tammy Bruce during a briefing.

"Secretary of State Marco Rubio has made it clear that our methods of influence will change, and we will not be intermediaries," she said.

At the same time, Bruce pointed out that the United States will continue to make certain efforts to resolve the current conflict. However, now American officials will not "fly around the world at the first call" to participate in negotiations between Ukraine and the Russian Federation as intermediaries.

"The parties need to present and develop concrete ideas on how this conflict should end," Bruce said.

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On April 29, U.S. State Department spokeswoman Tammy Bruce announced that the United States would cease its participation in negotiations on the conflict in Ukraine in the absence of progress in its settlement. Later, on May 1, US President Donald Trump's special envoy Keith Kellogg denied the US withdrawal from mediation to resolve the crisis in Ukraine.

On April 27, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov noted that negotiations with the United States on the conflict in Ukraine were moving in the right direction. He recalled that the American Secretary of State, among other things, expressed the opinion that during the negotiations Washington better understood Moscow's position, as well as the underlying causes of the conflict.