Rubio says both Russia and Ukraine ‘have to make concessions’ for peace deal

US secretary of state says talks between Putin and Trump had made progress' but big areas of disagreement' remain

In a combative series of interviews on Sunday, the US secretary of state, Marco Rubio, said that both sides are going to have to make concessions" for there to be a peaceful resolution to the war that erupted when Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022.

You can't have a peace agreement unless both sides make concessions - that's a fact," the Trump administration's top diplomat said Sunday on ABC's This Week. That's true in virtually any negotiation. If not, it's just called surrender. And neither side is going to surrender. So both sides are going to have to make concessions."