Rubio warns Russia that patience in the Ukraine war is running out

Foreign Minister Marco Rubio said on Friday that Russia is running out of time to persuade the Trump administration that he is serious about throwing a peace agreement with Ukraine and not only playing time.

Speaking in Brussels after a two -day gathering of NATO ministers, Mr. Rubio said that the United States is losing its patience with “talks on talks” and suggested that Russia was at risk of facing more US sanctions.

“We will know soon enough, within weeks, not months, whether Russia is serious in peace or not,” he told reporters. He added that Congress members are already formulating new penalties that the administration officials “will not be able to stop” without signs of progress.

President Trump pledged to end the war in Ukraine and mediate talks between Moscow and Kiev. Many observers assumed that Russia will embrace such a deal and that Ukraine will resist it, given that Russia occupies about one -fifth of its neighbor and has suffered from amazing victims.

But Mr. Rubio’s statements were the most recent sign that the Trump administration has been walking to a long -time view by the Biden administration, and Mr. Rubio himself when he was a member of the Senate in Florida: that President Vladimir F. Putin from Russia is not negotiating in good faith.

Many analysts say that the Russian leader stops time to pressure his military and political interest.

Mr. Rubio spoke after the NATO gathering, whose collective photos and press data carried out the deep tensions between America and Europe on Ukraine, and the assumptions of Mr. Trump in the market and even the fate of Greenland.

Mr. Rubio also conveyed Mr. Trump that NATO members would significantly increase the armies of armies to 5 percent of their gross domestic product – a difficult pill for Europe to swallow with the threat of Mr. Trump’s tariff.

In statements to reporters, Mr. Rubio defended Mr. Trump’s tariff as necessary, but he is wearing the timetable for increasing military spending as “a way to obtain up to 5 percent at some point.” He said other NATO members “open to doing more” to make the coalition stronger and less dependent on the United States.

A senior Ministry of Foreign Affairs official admitted that the definitions had appeared when Mr. Rubio met with his colleagues to discuss Ukraine. But the official, who was talking about the background to discuss private diplomacy, insisted that the mood in the room was collective.

There were reasons for the belief that US officials hoped to enjoy clear tensions during the event.

After Mr. Rubio met on Thursday with the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Denmark, Lars Loki Rasmussen, a summary of the Ministry of State of Bland, described the meeting as a “reaffirmation” of the United States’ relationship. Greenland did not refer to Greenland, the semi -weeping lands that Mr. Trump pledged to control any necessary means.

But Mr. Rasmussen said in Madin Social media After “clarifying the matter” to Mr. Rubio, “who claims and data about the annexation of Greenland is not only unacceptable and not respected. It is up to a violation of international law.”

In response to Friday, Mr. Rubio suggested that the United States would not need to seize Greenland because the people of the island really want to leave Denmark. He said: “We did not give them this idea.” “They were talking about it for a long time.”

Although it is correct that Greenland has been on a way towards complete independence, there are little signs that it hopes to become an American king.

Despite Mr. Trump’s talk that the peace agreement in Ukraine can open a new relationship for the United States and Russian, the Kremlin only agreed to a very partial ceasefire, including mutual stoppage on attacks against energy infrastructure sites that no side has noticed.

However, European governments are concerned that Mr. Trump – who admires Mr. Putin and the repeated critic of the President of Ukraine, Volodimir Zelinski – may give priority to Russia’s interests in any peace agreement, and they are pressuring their own efforts to protect Ukraine.

On Friday, French and British military leaders Kiev visited Kiev to discuss the deployment of potential forces to secure any ceasefire, including air defenses and military appearances on the ground and the sea, Mr. Zelinski told reporters.

He added that other countries are holding talks about providing peacekeepers, and refused to identify them.

Mr. Zelinski said that working on the deployment of allies in Ukraine is ongoing for two months, but it will take another month of talks before reaching any agreement.

“Today it was a dangerous and constructive conversation,” he said. “We will continue to meet.”

The Kremlin says he will not tolerate the forces from NATO members in Ukraine.

In Brussels, Mr. Rubio also denied that the Trump administration’s closure of the US International Development Agency had prevented Myanmar quickly after the devastating earthquake there last week.

Mr. Rubio blamed the delay in Junta in Myanmar, without reference to the evidence, and said that other wealthy countries, including China and India, should contribute more. “We are the richest country in the world, but our resources are not unlimited,” he said.

Maria Varinkova She contributed to the reports from Kyiv, Ukraine.