December  19, 2025

The U.S. has made “progress” on securing a peace deal between Ukraine and Russia, but there is still a “ways to go,” Secretary of State Marco Rubio told reporters on Friday.

“I think we’ve made progress, but we have a ways to go. And obviously the hardest issues are always the last issues,” Rubio said at the State Department briefing, noting that the ultimate agreement will have to come from both sides.

“Maybe that happens this week, maybe that happens next month, maybe that’s not ready for a few months,” he says on the timeline of the deal, which he also offered simply may “not be possible.”

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