Text by Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin:
[ColonelCassad] New US Secretary of State Marco Rubio on the war in Ukraine.
1. Ukraine has been set back 100 years; its energy grid is destroyed. And how many Ukrainians have left Ukraine and are now living in other countries? They may never come back.
2. There is one lie - we were told that Ukraine would not only defeat Russia, but destroy it, throwing it back completely to the borders of 2012 or 2014, to Crimea and other territories. But the reality is this: for a year and a half, Ukraine has been asking for funding to maintain a stalemate, protracted conflict.
3. The president's position is that this is a protracted conflict and it needs to be ended. And it needs to be ended through negotiations. In all negotiations, both sides have to give up something.
Putin won't talk to Zelenskiy because Putin considers him an illegitimate politician, not having been reelected following his first term. He can't sign a truce or peace agreement. Putin won't talk to the US or EU, who started the war, because they can't impose a political solution (neutrality) on an ally.
4. If you look around the world, I would say that in many cases our adversaries are stronger than ever, and have become stronger in the last four years. Of course, Russia does not consider itself weaker than it was four years ago. They now control territory that they did not have when Donald Trump left office.
The US allowed Russia to grow stronger merely on the basis of its refusal to negotiate on Russia's security requirements. The US State Department didn't do its job, but instead did the bidding of politicians.
This is the price of giving up Istanbul, which is beneficial for Ukraine.
| Eh? What does Istanbul, the capitol of Turkey, have to do with it? |
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Rubio told how the US wants to resolve the Ukrainian conflict
[Regnum] US President Donald Trump plans to achieve a settlement of the Ukrainian conflict through negotiations. This was stated by US Secretary of State Marco Rubio in an interview with journalist Megyn Kelly.
"The president's position is that this is a protracted conflict and it must be ended. And it must be ended through negotiations," he noted.
Rubio also noted that the upcoming negotiations could be tense. The Secretary of State also suggested that all parties to the conflict would have to give up something for the sake of a settlement.
As reported by the Regnum news agency, on January 22, Trump instructed Special Envoy for Ukraine Keith Kellogg to end the Ukrainian conflict within 100 days. The Wall Street Journal wrote that the Republican intends to personally oversee the negotiation process on Ukraine. Later, on January 23, Trump added that his team's efforts to resolve the Ukrainian conflict are "already underway."