{"id":65701,"date":"2025-11-30T20:36:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-30T20:36:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/65701\/"},"modified":"2025-11-30T20:36:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-30T20:36:10","slug":"ukraine-peace-deal-must-ensure-theres-never-another-war-again-rubio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/65701\/","title":{"rendered":"Ukraine peace deal must ensure there’s never ‘another war again’: Rubio"},"content":{"rendered":"

Secretary of State Marco Rubio emphasized Sunday that any peace deal to end the war in Ukraine must ensure that they never will \u201cnever have another war again\u201d \u2014 as top negotiators from Washington and Kyiv<\/a> met in Miami.<\/p>\n

The meeting came before President Trump\u2019s top envoys jet over<\/a> to Moscow to try to sell the latest deal to Russian tyrant Vladimir Putin.<\/p>\n

Their goal is to close the gap on what territory Ukraine could give up and what security guarantees Kyiv will receive in exchange \u2014 two critical issues that were left unresolved during talks in Geneva one week earlier.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is not just about ending a war this is about ending a war in a way that creates a mechanism and a way forward that will allow them to be independent and sovereign and never have another war again,\u201d Secretary of State Marco Rubio said at the start of the meeting.<\/p>\n

The Trump administration is working to understand Ukraine\u2019s red lines in negotiations to end the war. AFP via Getty Images<\/p>\n

His declaration came following criticism that a 28-point US-backed peace plan<\/a> heavily favored Moscow and would have left Ukraine vulnerable to future Russian attacks. <\/p>\n

A subsequent 19-point proposal that Ukraine agreed to appeared likely to be rejected by the Kremlin<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The meeting comes days after Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky\u2019s chief of staff and top negotiator, Andriy Yermak, resigned following a raid on his home by anti-corruption forces in Ukraine<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Yermak, who was expected to lead the negotiations, is in the crosshairs of an investigation into a scheme in which contractors of Ukraine\u2019s largest electricity producer, Energoatom, were allegedly forced to make 10 to 15% kickbacks or get blacklisted.<\/p>\n

Ukraine\u2019s team was upended after Volodymyr Zelensky\u2019s chief of staff and top negotiator, Andriy Yermak\u2019s house was raided last week. AFP via Getty Images<\/p>\n

Ukrainian national security adviser Rustem Umerov is now leading the peace talks in Miami for Ukraine.<\/p>\n

\u201cI remain in constant contact with the President of Ukraine. We have clear directives and priorities: safeguarding Ukrainian interests, ensuring substantive dialogue, and advancing on the basis of the progress achieved in Geneva,\u201d Umerov posted on X after talks began Sunday.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are working to secure real peace for Ukraine and reliable, long-term security guarantees.\u201d<\/p>\n

Trump\u2019s team included Rubio, special envoy Steve Witkoff and the president\u2019s son-in-law Jared Kushner.<\/p>\n

The talks took place at billionaire Witkoff\u2019s Shell Bay golf club.<\/p>\n

Both the US and Ukrainian negotiators have been revamping the initial 28-point plan that Trump\u2019s team rolled out earlier this month to end the bloody war in Ukraine after conferring with Russia.<\/p>\n

President Trump said he will speak with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and Russian tyrant Vladimir Putin when the time is right. Getty Images<\/p>\n

\u201cThe American side is demonstrating a constructive approach, and in the coming days it is feasible to flesh out the steps to determine how to bring the war to a dignified end,\u201d Zelensky said Saturday before the talks began.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Ukrainian delegation has the necessary directives, and I expect the guys to work in accordance with clear Ukrainian priorities.\u201d<\/p>\n

On Tuesday, Witkoff and Kushner are set to unveil their updated peace plan to Putin, who just last week declared that Russia will either acquire the land it has sought peacefully or via force.<\/p>\n

\u201cI look forward to hopefully meeting with President Zelenskyy and President Putin soon, but ONLY when the deal to end this War is FINAL or, in its final stages,\u201d Trump wrote on Truth Social last week. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Secretary of State Marco Rubio emphasized Sunday that any peace deal to end the war in Ukraine must…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":65702,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[409,24279,123,125,124,99,5767,21553,38754,4278],"class_list":["post-65701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-donald-trump","tag-foreign-policy","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news","tag-politics","tag-russia","tag-ukraine","tag-ukraine-war","tag-us-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65701","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65701"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65701\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}