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Washington – The Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, said on Sunday that “both parties will have to make concessions” to end the Russian war in Ukraine, hinting at the way ahead for conversations aimed at getting Moscow and kyiv to reach a lasting peace agreement.

“We want to end a peace agreement that ends this war so that Ukraine can continue with the rest of their lives and rebuild their country and be sure that this will never happen again,” Rubio said in “face the nation with Margaret Brennan,” pointing out that doing so would require both sides “Dan.”

• Complete transcription: Secretary of State Frame Rubio in “Fac The Nation with Margaret Brennan”

President Trump is Established to meet With Ukrainian President Volodymyr and European leaders in the White House on Monday after his High Risk Summit With Putin in Alaska last Friday. Trump called the almost three hours meeting with Putin “extremely productive” with “many points” in which the two leaders agreed. But “there is no treatment until there is an agreement,” he said, and the fire was not announced.

Rubio, who attended the summit, was thin in the details on Sunday, saying that “there are things that were discussed as part of this meeting that are potential for progress.” He added that the details would be discussed with Zelenskyy and other European leaders on Monday while the administration works to “reduce the gap between the two parties.”

“We have to advance enough so that we can sit on President Zelenskyy and President Putin in the same place, which is what President Zelenskyy has been asking, and reaching a final agreement that ends this war,” said Rubio, and pointed out that there were “some concepts and ideas discussed” with Putin who expect Ukrainians to support.

When asked if the United States would demand the Russian withdrawal of the Ukrainian territory as part of an agreement, the Secretary of State acknowledged that both parties would have to make concessions to reach an agreement to end the conflict.

“If one side gets everything they want, that is called surrender,” said Rubio. “And that is not what we are close to doing, because none of the sides here is on the verge of surrender, or anything close to it.”

Rubio described a handful of areas where an agreement must be reached, including the details of the security guarantees for Ukraine, the question of the territories “and where the lines” and the question of the reconstruction of the country will be drawn. He said that ideas “require more specificity,” noting that the United States “will need to work with our partners to see how that looks.”

Monday’s discussions occur after Zelenskyy met Trump and vice president JD Vance in February, when a Oval office meeting He descended to insults and chaos, exposing severe divisions between the United States and Ukraine.

Rubio retreated the idea that European leaders join Zelenskyy in Washington to provide support to the Ukrainian president to avoid accepting a bad treatment after the contentious meeting earlier this year.

“We have been working with these people for weeks, for weeks in these things,” Rubio said. “They will come here tomorrow because they are supposed to come here tomorrow. We invite you to come. The president invited them to come.”

The secretary described that after the meeting with Putin, “we felt, and I accepted, that there was enough progress, not much progress, but sufficient progress in those conversations to allow us to move on to the next phase.”

“I am not saying that we are on the verge of a peace agreement, but I am saying that we saw movement,” Rubio added. “Enough movement to justify a follow -up meeting with Zelenskyy and Europeans, enough movement to devote ourselves even more time to this.”

The representative Jason Crow, a Democrat of Colorado, appeared in “Face the Nation” after Rubio, and called the meeting with Putin a “historical shame” while describing what he says is necessary to end the war.

“In any negotiation, when you try to end an armed conflict, there is nothing more important than to understand what motivates your adversary, what is making Vladimir Putin work, in this case,” said Crow.

Crow argued that Putin does not care about things like an elevated stealth bomber step B-2 and an alignment of F-22 combat aircraft, which were part of a carefully choreographed red carpet welcome in Alaska.

“What Vladimir Putin cares is basically three things: he cares about economic pressure in the form of sanctions; he cares about political and diplomatic isolation – be a state of Paria; And he cares about military defeat, “said Crow.” Those are the three things that will end this conflict. “