Rubio warns there is a ‘real risk’ that the war between Russia and Ukraine will spread to another country and calls for an end to the conflict

Ukraine and Russia must focus on ending the war between them, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio told reporters during his visit to Uzbekistan on Monday.

Asked about a possible meeting between U.S. President Donald Trump, Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese leader Xi Jinping to negotiate an end to the four-year-old Ukraine conflict, Rubio said: “There have been discussions about a meeting. I don’t know if it has been finalized, but the president has been clear.”

He wants the wars in Ukraine and Russia to end.”

Rubio landed in Samarkand on Sunday evening to meet with senior officials of the C5+1 group that brings together the United States and the predominantly Muslim post-Soviet states of Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Turkmenistan.

Trump hosted the C5 leaders at the White House last November.

“We don’t see anything good coming out of this war,” Rubio said.

“We see many downsides to this, including the very real risk of this thing escalating and spreading…into another country because of a failed sabotage attack, because of drones that are affected by electronic warfare and wandering into a neighboring country. »

The United States tried to broker a peace deal to end the war in Ukraine and Trump has since reached a diesel import deal with Russia and lifted some sanctions on Moscow, which he said should keep the Kremlin at the negotiating table.

These measures were criticized by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.

A new Russian airstrike killed a woman overnight in kyiv, Ukraine, while hitting a metro station and damaging a 25-story residential building.