Rubio says both Russia and Ukraine must make concessions to end war

Secretary of state nominee defends Trump's foreign policy vision and his own hawkish record in Senate hearing

Marco Rubio said that both Russia and Ukraine will have to make concessions" in order to reach the peace deal promised by Donald Trump as he offered a full-throated defense of the president-elect's vision for America's role around the world - and his own hawkish record on foreign policy.

Rubio, Trump's nominee for secretary of state, told the Senate foreign relations committee that the war in Ukraine had become a stalemate" and has to end"; that the US should show China that it would pay too high" a price for invading Taiwan; and that European countries have to stop treating US support for Nato as an excuse to ... spend on domestic needs".