Analyst John S Kavulich says Marco Rubio’s recent statement on Ukraine appears to be primarily directed at Russia.
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00:00But we've also heard President Trump criticizing Putin.
00:04Do you think this is a wake up call for Russia or are they trying to push everyone, NATO, Europe, Russia, everyone involved?
00:11It is. It's a group push. However, you are correct in that if you, you know, if we had to choose to whom is Secretary of State Rubio more directing than not.
00:28And he's more directing to Foreign Minister Lavrov and to President Putin because the Ukrainians didn't want to do what President Trump wanted them to do at the beginning, which was the clean ceasefire.
00:45Just pick a day, pick a time, stop shooting 30 days within the 30 days.
00:50Then we start talking about how to move forward on negotiating an actual peace.
00:56Ukraine eventually bought into it.
00:59The Russians did privately, not publicly, and they've been vacillating back and forth, adding conditions, et cetera.
01:07So President Trump, as he said, I think he used the word pissed off that, you know, he was dragging.