U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio during an interview with Fox News' Hannity aired on Tuesday (December 2) said the United States has made "some progress" in developing security guarantees for Ukraine, while emphasizing that unlimited American funding for the war is "not realistic" and unsustainable.

Rubio outlined U.S. efforts to find an agreement that would provide Ukraine with long-term security assurances against future invasions while enabling economic recovery.

The Kremlin said on Wednesday (December 3) that President Vladimir Putin accepted some U.S. proposals aimed at ending the war in Ukraine and rejected others but that Russia was ready to meet U.S. negotiators as many times as it took to reach an agreement.

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov was speaking after talks in Moscow between Putin and U.S. President Donald Trump's special envoy, Steve Witkoff, and son-in-law Jared Kushner went into the early hours of Wednesday morning, with a Kremlin aide saying afterwards that "compromises have not yet been found."

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1. (SOUNDBITE) (English) U.S. SECRETARY OF STATE, MARCO RUBIO, SAYING: (SOUNDBITE CONTINUES OVER SHOT OF INTERVIEW WITH SEAN HANNITY ONGOING)

“What they're literally fighting over now is about 30 to 50 kilometre space in the 20% of the Donetsk region that remains. And so what we have tried to do, and I think have made some progress, is figure out what can the Ukrainians live with that gives them security guarantees for the future, that they're never going to be invaded again, allows them not just to rebuild their economy, but to prosper as a country, be a country that has an economy that grows. Theoretically, doing the right things, in 10 years, Ukraine's GDP could be larger than Russia's.”

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3. (SOUNDBITE) (English) U.S. SECRETARY OF STATE, MARCO RUBIO, SAYING: (SOUNDBITE CONTINUES OVER SHOT OF INTERVIEW WITH SEAN HANNITY ONGOING)

“These are the kinds of things. Stop the war, you know, make sure they never get invaded or attacked again, protect Ukraine's long-standing and long-term sovereignty and independence so that they don't become a puppet state, they're actually independent and sovereign, and allow their economy not just to recover, but to prosper, and turn it into a story of prosperity. That's what we're trying to achieve here. So what can Ukraine agree to, given all the dynamics that I've just described, and what will Russia agree to?”

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5. (SOUNDBITE) (English) U.S. SECRETARY OF STATE, MARCO RUBIO, SAYING:

“And at the end of day, you know, it's not up to us. It's not our war. We're not fighting it on American soldiers. It's on another continent. We are engaged because we're the only ones that can, European countries. There's no one else in the world that can do this. The Chinese can't do it. The only leader in the world that can talk to both sides and make a deal of a deal as possible is President Trump.”

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7. (SOUNDBITE) (English) U.S. SECRETARY OF STATE, MARCO RUBIO, SAYING:

“Some of these people have this notion that our policy should be, just continue to fund Ukraine an unlimited amount for as long as the war takes. That's not realistic. That's not reality. And that's not going to happen. And we've been saying that for a long time. When you can't sustain the scale and scope of it. And I also don't think it's realistic for Russia to continue this war for four or five years.”