MANILA, July 23 (Reuters) \u2013 U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio\u00a0said on Thursday that the United States remains prepared to play a \u201cconstructive role\u201d in helping bring an end to \u200bthe war in Ukraine, following talks with Russian Foreign Minister \u200cSergei Lavrov on the sidelines of an ASEAN gathering\u00a0in Manila.<\/p>\n
Speaking after the meeting,\u00a0Rubio said President Donald Trump had made clear that the United States was prepared to help facilitate an end to a \u201csenseless war\u201d if the opportunity \u200carose. \u200bHe said Washington had conveyed that message \u2060to Moscow while declining to \u2060characterize Russia\u2019s position during the talks.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe had a good conversation, a frank conversation,\u201d Rubio said of his meeting with his Russian counterpart.\u00a0He said he would not go into specifics about \u200bwhat was discussed.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe United States, the president\u2019s been clear that \u2026 we are prepared to play a constructive role in bringing about \u2060an end to a senseless war, \u2060and we\u2019re ready to do that,\u201d Rubio said.<\/p>\n
Lavrov, for \u200bhis part, \u201creaffirmed Russia\u2019s readiness for a political and diplomatic settlement of \u200bthe conflict,\u201d the Russian ministry\u2019s statement said, and told \u200cRubio that Moscow remained committed to proposals put forward by Presidents Trump and Vladimir Putin at their August 2025 meeting in Alaska.<\/p>\n
Rubio said the conflict had exacted a heavy toll, pointing to civilian \u2060deaths and Russian strikes on Kyiv. Both Russia and Ukraine had an incentive to bring the war to an end, but the central challenge \u2060remained finding a \u200csettlement \u201cthat both sides can accept,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think \u2060it is a very bloody war,\u201d Rubio said. \u201cI \u200bthink \u200cboth sides should have an incentive to bring \u200bit to \u2060an end. That\u2019s been the challenge, is an end that both sides can accept, and we\u2019ve tried, and we\u2019ll continue to try to see if we can find a middle ground that brings this about,\u201d Rubio said.<\/p>\n
(Reporting by Michael Martina; Writing by Martin Petty; Editing \u200bby David Stanway)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MANILA, July 23 (Reuters) \u2013 U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio\u00a0said on Thursday that the United States remains…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":779656,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,3,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":["post-779655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-news","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/779655","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=779655"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/779655\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/779656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=779655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=779655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=779655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}