We`ve spent three years calling Vladimir Putin names. That’s not the point now. The point that we`re at now is we’re trying to get the man to a table. Such a statement made the US Secretary of State.

"The Russians – and I`ve said from the very beginning maybe they don`t want a deal either. We don’t know. But we haven`t talked to them in three years, but maybe they do.

The point is do we want to make – I would ask everybody this: If there are no negotiations, what is the alternative? Another four years of war, another three years of war, in which the United States and Europe continues to pour billions of dollars into a war in Ukraine? Is that the alternative?

I`ve asked every foreign minister I meet with, "Tell me your idea of how this turns out." Most don’t have a plan.

A few have said, well, let`s give them another year of fighting, a year from now, a year later, after another year of death, another year of destruction, then maybe Putin will be ready to negotiate at that point. That doesn`t sound like a good plan to me, and it certainly is not a plan the President is on board with", - said Marco Rubio.