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U.S. Senator Marco Rubio said on NBC’s “Meet the Press” that any eventual peace agreement between Kyiv and Moscow would not involve Ukraine ceding all Russian-occupied regions, including Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson, Zaporizhzhia and Crimea. “The Ukrainians are not willing to give that up and no one’s pushing Ukraine to give that up,” the Florida Republican said in the 17 August interview. Asked about reports that President Vladimir Putin wants to retain the roughly 20 percent of Ukrainian territory now under Russian control, Rubio responded that a settlement “is not gonna look like that,” but did not specify what concessions, if any, he believes Russia might make. Rubio’s remarks signal continued bipartisan resistance in Washington to any settlement viewed as legitimizing Moscow’s territorial gains since the 2022 invasion.
WELKER: Russia currently occupies about 20% of Ukraine. There are reports that Putin is asking to keep all of that territory in a potential deal. Is that what's being discussed? RUBIO: If there is gonna be a peace deal, it's not gonna look like that https://t.co/UQNDdC4PGj
🗣️🇺🇦 NBC News: Is giving Putin all of Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson, Zaporizhzhia, and Crimea being discussed? 🇺🇸 Rubio: "The Ukrainians are not willing to give that up and no one's pushing Ukraine to give that up... If there's gonna be a peace deal, it's not gonna look like that." https://t.co/R4gElsNER8
Rubio repeatedly won't name a single specific concession that Russia will have to give up as part of a peace deal, then pivots to talking about land that Ukraine will have to give up https://t.co/lKADhYRj5B
