Rubio says we need to investigate Russia’s conditions to end war, peace to ‘take time’

State Secretary Marco Rubio said Wednesday that the United States will investigate Russia’s requested conditions for agreements with Ukraine, but warned that a peace agreement would take time.

“It won’t be simple. It takes some time, but at least we’re on that way and we’re talking about these things,” Rubio told a news conference in Jamaica.

Russia and Ukraine were in parallel conversations with US broadcasts in Saudi Arabia to stop strikes in the Black Sea as President Donald Trump presses to end the war.

The Kremlin said on Wednesday that a revival of an agreement on the Black Sea Sending was subject to “a number of conditions” and that Russia was discussing sanctions from the United States.

“We will evaluate it. Some of these conditions include sanctions that are not ours. They belong to the European Union,” Rubio said.

He said the American dealers would meet and “then we will present it to the president, who will eventually make a decision on what the next step” is.

“I think it’s a good thing that we have both Ukrainians and the Russians talking about a ceasefire, whether energy or being the potential in the Black Sea,” Rubio said.

Rubio had previously called on Russia to accept without prerequisites a proposed 30-day general ceasefire agreed by Ukraine.

French President Emmanuel Macron meanwhile renewed the invitation to Russia to accept without relationship and said it was “far too early” to consider lifting sanctions.

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