Rubio: Trump going to make decision about how much more time we’re going to dedicate to Russia and Ukraine
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio has said there is no military solution to the war between Russia and Ukraine and US President Trump will soon decide how much attention his administration will pay "to this issue."
“Let’s remind everybody this is not our war. I mean, this is a war that started under Joe Biden. For three years it went on. They made no effort to sort of bring it to a conclusion. And it’s a war that has no military solution: in essence, Putin can’t take all of Ukraine; Ukraine can’t push the Russians all the way back to where they were in 2014. And so the President [Trump] has tried. Look, we’ve gotten closer. We – for the first time – we haven’t known this for three years – we kind of can see what it would take for Ukraine to stop. We can see what it would take for the Russians to stop. The problem is those two positions are still a little far apart,” he said on Fox News on Thursday.
Rubio also said it would be up to Trump to decide what role his administration would play in resolving the situation "at the highest levels."
“We’re not going to give up on it in the sense that we’re not going to be ready to help … But there does come a point where the President has to decide how much more time at the highest levels of our government do you dedicate it, when maybe one of the two sides or both aren’t really close enough when we’ve got so many … more important issues … So at some point in time, it either has to be something that can happen or we all need to move on. That’ll be a decision the President will have to make,” the Secretary of State noted.
He stressed that a "real breakthrough" is needed in the near future for the parties to come close to reaching an agreement.
“Look, you asked how close we are. I think we know where Ukraine is and we know where Russia is right now and where Putin is. They’re still far apart. They’re closer, but they’re still far apart. And it’s going to take a real breakthrough here very soon to make this possible, or I think the President is going to have to make a decision about how much more time we’re going to dedicate to this,” Rubio noted.
