Rubio speaks of Plan A, Plan B to end Russia-Ukraine war

This was reported by Radio Liberty, Ukrinform reports.

"This is a complex, three-year war (...) So no one's claiming that it's easy, but I want everyone to understand, here's the plan. Plan A is, get the shooting to stop so that we can move to Plan B, phase two, which is have everybody at a table, maybe not- maybe with some shuttle diplomacy, to figure out a way to permanently end this war," he said on CBS News.

According to Rubio, no one is saying that the "second part is easy" but “we can't get even to that second part until we get past the first part," the head of the State Department noted.

“It's hard to negotiate an enduring end of a war as long as they're shooting at each other, and so the president (Trump - ed.) wants a ceasefire. That's what we're working on, assuming we can get that done. That won't be easy in and of itself. We move to the second phase, which is negotiating something more enduring and permanent. That will be hard. It will involve a lot of hard work, concessions from both sides, but it has to happen,” the U.S. Secretary of State said.

At the same time, he said the meeting of U.S. special envoy Steve Witkoff with Vladimir Putin on March 13 was “promising.”

As Ukrinform reported, U.S. President’s Special Representative for the Middle East Steve Witkoff announced real progress on the ceasefire in the Russo-Ukrainian war.

Photo: Official State Department