“The fundamental challenge is that [страна-агрессор] Russia wants what it does not have and has nothing right now, and Ukraine wants that it cannot return it to a military way, ”Rubio said.
He emphasized that the war in Ukraine should end with negotiations.
“Russians are going to prepare their conditions to achieve a ceasefire, which will allow wider negotiations. We are waiting for these conditions, and then we will have a better understanding of calculations [нелегитимного российского президента Владимира] Putin, as soon as we see how these conditions will look, ”the Secretary of State added.
He also suggested that Putin received “the wrong war he was counting on.”
Context
On May 19, US President Donald Trump held Telephone conversation With Putin about the ceasefire in Ukraine. Before this call, as well as after it, the head of the White House talked with the President of Ukraine Vladimir Zelensky.
After a conversation with Putin, Trump said that Russia and Ukraine “will immediately begin negotiations on the ceasefire and, more importantly, war.” In addition, the head of the White House said that so far it would not strengthen anti -Russian sanctions.
Putin claims that Kyiv and Moscow plan to prepare a memorandum relatively probable future peace agreement.
Zelensky said that Ukraine It is not known what the Russian Federation will lay in a memorandumbut she often “wants everything.” “It is for this reason that we will expect their versions of the memorandum, their principles. Even the principle of their principles is unknown,” the President of Ukraine said.
