The secretary of state, heading to talks with Ukrainian officials in Saudi Arabia, said future talks with Moscow will be needed to determine what Russia is willing to give up to end the war.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio said on Monday that Ukraine would have to make concessions over land that Russia had taken since 2014 as part of any agreement to end the war.

Mr. Rubio spoke as he was flying to Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, for talks with senior Ukrainian officials, and 10 days after a contentious White House meeting between President Trump and his Ukrainian counterpart, Volodymyr Zelensky. The Trump administration halted military aid to Ukraine after the blowup, which centered on Mr. Trump’s refusal to include any security guarantees in a proposed deal involving Ukraine’s natural resources.

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  • commander@lemmings.worldEnglish
    201·
    1 day ago

    Why do you put stock in security guarantees now?

    Ukraine had security “guarantees” when Russia invaded because they gave up their nukes that Western nation have not followed through on.

    • TheEighthDoctor@lemmy.zipEnglish
      1·
      2 hours ago

      Security Guarantees means putting a NATO (or future equivalent) base at the border with soldiers from all over Europe, anything less than that is not guarantee of fuck all

    • Lit@lemmy.worldEnglish
      211·
      1 day ago

      Memorandum was not really a guarantee. NATO is more of a guarantee, nukes are more of a guarantee. Guarantee means NATO and/or Nukes.

      Don’t need to believe it will work, Nukes and NATO has worked in the past to maintain peace along russia borders.

      • alkbch@lemmy.mlEnglish
        1·
        5 hours ago

        NATO membership is off the table, virtually no NATO country wants Ukraine to join.

        • Pelicanen@sopuli.xyzEnglish
          2·
          2 hours ago

          Almost all of the NATO countries want Ukraine to join except for Russia’s lapdogs, ergo: Hungary, Slovakia, and the US.

      • Aux@feddit.ukEnglish
        59·
        1 day ago

        NATO is not a guarantee anymore. Trump openly said that if specific European NATO countries will get attacked by Russia then there will be no response.