U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said on Thursday\u00a0that the\u00a0United States remains prepared to play a “constructive role” in helping bring an end to the\u00a0war in Ukraine, following talks with\u00a0Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on the sidelines of an\u00a0ASEAN\u00a0summit\u00a0in Manila.<\/p>\n
Speaking after the meeting, Rubio said President Donald Trump had made clear that the United States was prepared to help facilitate an end to a “senseless war” if the opportunity arose. He said Washington had conveyed that message to Moscow while declining to characterize\u00a0Russia’s\u00a0position during the talks.<\/p>\n
“We had a good conversation, a frank conversation,” Rubio said of his meeting with his\u00a0Russian counterpart. He said he would not go into specifics about\u00a0what was discussed.<\/p>\n
“The United States, the president’s been clear that …\u00a0we are prepared to play a constructive role in bringing about an end to a senseless war, and we’re ready to do that,” Rubio said.<\/p>\n
Lavrov, for his part, “reaffirmed\u00a0Russia’s readiness for a political and diplomatic settlement of the conflict,” the\u00a0Russian ministry’s statement said, and told Rubio that Moscow remained committed to proposals put forward by Presidents Trump and Vladimir Putin at their\u00a0August 2025\u00a0meeting in Alaska.<\/p>\n
Rubio said the conflict had exacted a heavy toll, pointing to civilian deaths and\u00a0Russian strikes on Kyiv. Both\u00a0Russia\u00a0and Ukraine had an incentive to bring the war to an end,\u00a0but\u00a0the central challenge remained finding a settlement “that both sides can accept,” he added.<\/p>\n
“I think it is a very bloody war,” Rubio said. “I think both sides should have an incentive to bring it to an end. That’s been the challenge, is an end that both sides can accept, and we’ve tried, and we’ll continue to try to see if we can find a middle ground that brings this about,” Rubio said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said on Thursday\u00a0that the\u00a0United States remains prepared to play a “constructive role”…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":779712,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,1930,332189,3,250241,9423,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":["post-779711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-diplomacy","tag-lavrov","tag-news","tag-rubio","tag-ukraine-war","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\/779711","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=779711"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/779711\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/779712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=779711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=779711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=779711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}