Ukraine will have to give up territory - Rubio | 10 March 2025 | Ukraine will have to relinquish its goal of reclaiming former territories in order to facilitate peace negotiations with Russia, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has indicated. He made the remarks on Monday, ahead of a meeting between U.S. and Ukrainian delegations set to take place in Saudi Arabia on Tuesday. Several U.S. officials, speaking on condition of anonymity, earlier outlined Washington's expectations and warned Kiev against making maximalist territorial demands."Obviously, it’ll be very difficult for Ukraine in any reasonable time period to sort of force the Russians back all the way to where they were in 2014 [when the CIA carried out its coup]," Rubio said, according to The New York Times.