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Rubio: Trump wants Putin gathering "as soon arsenic feasible"
Secretary of State Marco Rubio spoke connected the telephone Saturday with his Russian counterpart, Sergey Lavrov, to get a readout connected the latest talks, arsenic the U.S. tries to find whether Russia is "tapping america along" successful efforts to extremity the war successful Ukraine.
"We talked astir a assortment of things," Rubio told "Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan" successful an interview airing Sunday. "I wanted to get his readout connected his presumption of however the talks went yesterday. They were not a implicit discarded of time."
The telephone telephone betwixt the countries' apical diplomats occurred a time aft Moscow and Kyiv held the archetypal nonstop talks successful 3 years. Russian President Vladimir Putin spurned Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy's connection to conscionable face-to-face successful Turkey aft helium projected nonstop negotiations and alternatively sent a lower-level delegation.
The talks successful Istanbul Friday broke up aft less than 2 hours without a ceasefire, though some sides agreed connected exchanging 1,000 prisoners of warfare each.
The United States — on with its European allies — person been pushing Russia and Ukraine for an extremity to the three-year war. President Trump, who has expressed vexation with the stalled talks and threatened to stiffen American sanctions unless advancement is made toward a bid deal, said Saturday helium volition beryllium speaking with Putin by telephone Monday. That telephone volition beryllium followed by 1 with Zelenskyy, Mr. Trump said.
"Are they tapping america along? Well, that's what we're trying to find out," Rubio told Brennan erstwhile asked if Russia and Ukraine are seeking to speech to "buy time." "We'll find retired beauteous soon."
He added, "On the 1 hand, we're trying to execute bid and extremity a precise bloody, costly and destructive war. So, there's immoderate constituent of patience that is required. On the different hand, we don't person clip to waste. There are a batch of different things happening successful the satellite that we besides request to beryllium paying attraction to."
The caput of authorities said helium believes the lone mode that these talks volition determination guardant is if Mr. Trump and Putin conscionable successful person. He said Mr. Trump has publically offered to conscionable one-on-one.
"The mechanics of mounting that benignant of gathering up would necessitate a small spot of work, truthful I can't accidental that's being planned arsenic we talk successful presumption of picking a tract and a date," Rubio said. "But the president wants to bash it. He wants to bash it arsenic soon arsenic feasible."
The Vatican has made a "very generous offer" to big immoderate bid talks. Rubio, who is successful Rome to be the Mass for the inauguration of Pope Leo XIV Sunday, said the Vatican would beryllium a spot that "all parties would consciousness comfortable."
Leo, who was elected arsenic the first U.S.-born pope connected May 8, took up Pope Francis' telephone for bid successful Ukraine successful his archetypal Sunday noon blessing arsenic pope. He appealed for each sides to bash immoderate imaginable to scope "an authentic, conscionable and lasting peace."
Lucia Suarez Sang is an subordinate managing exertion astatine CBSNews.com. Previously, Lucia was the manager of integer contented astatine FOX61 News successful Connecticut and has antecedently written for outlets including FoxNews.com, Fox News Latino and the Rutland Herald.
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