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Last Updated:March 15, 2025, 16:05 IST
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio has said that both Russia and Ukraine have to get to the negotiating table to end the war.
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio (AP Image)
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio has apparently echoed Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s sentiments over how the Russia-Ukraine war could be brought to an end – away from the battlefield.
Rubio said what PM Modi told Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow during his visit in July last year that dialogue and diplomacy are the only way forward and no solutions can be found on the battlefield.
Rubio On How Ukraine Conflict Could End
The US Secretary of State, while responding to questions from reporters, said that the first step towards peace between Ukraine and Russia – who have been fighting for over three years now – is to accept that there is “no military solution to the conflict".
“I think the first step in all this is the acceptance that there is no military solution to this conflict. Neither side can militarily achieve their maximalist gains – their maximalist goals. I mean, they’re just not going to achieve them through the military side. The only way this conflict can end is through negotiation. That’s the only way you’re going to have peace is through negotiation," he said. The remarks reiterated PM Modi’s stance on the Russia-Ukraine conflict in which he said that it is not an era of war and solutions can only be found through dialogue and diplomacy and not on the battlefield.
“And so we need to start that process. And it is hard to start a process when people are shooting at each other and people are dying. And so our hope is that we can stop that, all these hostilities, and get to a negotiating table where both sides – over some period of time with a lot of hard work – can find a mutually acceptable outcome that, in the case of Ukraine, obviously secures their long-term prosperity and security," Rubio added.
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First Published:March 15, 2025, 16:05 IST
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