Marco Rubio

That would ignore reality.

Look, Ukraine, first of all, they deserve a lot of credit.

They fought very bravely.

They've received extraordinary amount of support from the United States to the tune of billions of dollars that pre-exist the war.

In fact, Ukraine probably wouldn't have survived the early days of the war had it not been for American support.

aid that came to them even before the war had started, you know, with the Javelin missiles that disabled the tank formations.

No, but I'm not worried about that because I can tell you that I think history will understand that.

But I don't think the war is going to end in a traditional loss in the way people think.

I don't think it's possible for Russia to even achieve whatever initial objectives they had at the beginning of this war.

I think now it's largely narrowed down to their desire to take 20% of Donetsk that they don't currently possess.

And and that's hard.

It's a hard concession for Ukraine to make for obvious reasons, both from a tactical standpoint and also from a political one.

And so that's kind of where this thing is narrowed.

And, you know, we'll continue to search for ways to see if there's a solution to that unique problem that's acceptable to Ukraine and that Russia will also accept.

And it may not work out, but we are going to do everything we can to see if we can find a deal.

There are like I said, there are days like last week where you felt we made some pretty substantial progress.

But ultimately, we have to see a final resolution to this to feel that it's been worth the work.

But we're going to keep trying.

And our negotiators, Steve Woodcoff, now Jared Kushner is involved, have dedicated a tremendous amount of time to this.

And they'll have meetings again on Tuesday in regards to this.