Posted on 05/15/2025 2:56:41 PM PDT by marcusmaximus
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said he would not attend talks with Russia on Friday and said he does not expect a breakthrough in the negotiations over the war in Ukraine until Presidents Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin meet “face to face”, APA reports citing CNN.
“We don’t have high expectations of what will happen tomorrow,” Rubio said in a press gaggle in Antalya, Turkey, but said he hoped to be proven wrong.
Rubio said he would meet Friday with the Ukrainian foreign minister and a Ukrainian delegation and “someone from our team will be involved in the Russia talks.”
“They sent a more lower-level group over here. I hope that those talks will be between Ukraine and Russia, with our Turkish counterparts in the room, along with someone from our team or members of our team at the appropriate level,” he said.
“I was going to be here anyways, obviously,” for a NATO meeting, Rubio noted, “but we came because we were told that there might be a direct engagement between the Russians and the Ukrainians.”
“That was originally the plan. You all heard the same thing. That was not to be the case. Or if it is, it’s not at the levels we had hoped it would be at. I hope I’m wrong,” he said.
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“Rubio noted, “but we came because we were told that there might be a direct engagement between the Russians and the Ukrainians. That was originally the plan. You all heard the same thing. That was not to be the case. Or if it is, it’s not at the levels we had hoped it would be at. I hope I’m wrong.”
Rubio needs to start listening to THE RUSSIANS and stop reading planted stories in the Washington Post.
Putin wasted everyone’s time by sending the JV team to Istanbul.
“Putin wasted everyone’s time by sending the JV team to Istanbul.”
When did Putin say otherwise?
Secretary Rubio is not the JV team.
Putin wasted everyone’s time by sending the JV team to Istanbul.
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Putin - let’s resume the 2022 talks in Turkey, the ones you ended and start where we left off
Ukraine- Ok
Putin - I’m going to send the exact same lead negotiator from the 2022 talks to Turkey again. You know because you agreed to resume them
Zeepers and Z-man - How dare you send him!!!!!! You are wasting my time
Rubio is in Istanbul now. He will not meet with the Russians on Friday because Putin sent the JV team at the last minute. Putin and Lavrov screwed him over.
Putin’s lead negotiator is the Minister of Culture.
Putin’s lead negotiator is the Minister of Culture.
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Yes
The same person that lead them in 2022
The exact same talks in the exact same location
(I bet you didn’t even know that)
He’s a silly clown and an insult to the Trump administration. That’s why Rubio won’t meet with him tomorrow. Do you remember when Medinsky was bragging about Russians being so advanced versus normal people because Russians have an extra chromosome?
Kyiv in 3 days! Bring your parade uniforms!
Lavrov screwed over Rubio by canceling at the last minute.
Putin was sending the people of the appropriate level to meet with the whiney drug snorting toddler.
Kyiv in 3 day! Russia winning stronk!
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