‘Progress’ Made on Ukraine Security Guarantees: Rubio

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00:00What they're literally fighting over now is about 30 to 50 kilometer space in the 20% of the Donetsk region that remains.

00:06And so what we have tried to do, and I think have made some progress, is figure out what can the Ukrainians live with

00:11that gives them security guarantees for the future, they're never going to be invaded again,

00:15allows them not just to rebuild their economy, but to prosper as a country,

00:19be a country that has an economy that grows, theoretically, doing the right things.

00:23In 10 years, Ukraine's GDP could be larger than Russia's.

00:26These are the kinds of things, stop the war, you know, make sure they never get invaded or attacked again,

00:32protect Ukraine's longstanding and long-term sovereignty and independence so that they don't become a puppet state,

00:37they're actually independent and sovereign, and allow their economy not just to recover, but to prosper

00:41and turn it into a story of prosperity. That's what we're trying to achieve here.

00:46So what can Ukraine agree to, given all the dynamics that I've just described, and what will Russia agree to?

00:51And at the end of the day, you know, it's not up to us. It's not our war.

00:54We're not fighting it. They're not American soldiers. It's on another continent.

00:57We are engaged because we're the only ones that can.

01:00European countries, there's no one else in the world that can do this. The Chinese can't do it.

01:03The only leader in the world that can talk to both sides and make a deal of a deal as possible is President Trump.

01:09Some of these people have this notion that our policy should be just continue to fund Ukraine

01:14in unlimited amounts for as long as the war takes.

01:16That's not realistic. That's not reality. And that's not going to happen.

01:22And we've been saying that for a long time. You can't sustain the scale and scope of it.

01:25And I also think it's realistic for Russia to continue this war for four or five years.