"Should end": Rubio called the war in Ukraine "proxy" between the US and the Russian Federation (screenshot)

"It is a proxy between nuclear states-the United States that help Ukraine and Russia-and it must end," Rubio said. In particular, the US Secretary of State has criticized Ukraine and Europeans for the lack of a plan for the end of the war. "No one has an idea or a plan to put this end. The plan of Ukrainians, their allies on the Capitol Hill and the people you talk to in other countries, is to simply continue giving them as much as they need and as much as they need.

It is not a strategy," Rubio said. He added that the US side asked the Ukrainians not to sabotage the process of finding a peaceful path to end the fighting. However, according to Rubio, President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky did so, deciding to call into question the words of US Vice President Jay Vens on the possibilities of diplomacy.

This is what led to the controversy of Trump and Zelensky in the White House Oval office on February 28, according to Rubio and adds that he was glad to see that the Ukrainian president has revised his decision. Now, according to the Secretary of State, Ukrainians will have their demands, and their Russians will have to see "how far they are from each other", and then "diplomacy" has to go into effect.

In particular, Marco Rubio added that Donald Trump considers war in Ukraine "protracted and hopeless. " As for the Russians, the Secretary of State said they had a larger country. The Russian army "made some progress", but does not dominate the war and "conflict went into a dead end. " In October 2024, the Ukrainian president presented the Victory Plan in the war with the Russian Federation. It consists of five points and three secret additions.