Republican Senator Marco Rubio, whom future US President Donald Trump chose to serve as Secretary of State, believes that to end the war, both Russia and Ukraine will have to make concessions. The Russian Federation will never be able to capture Ukraine, and the Ukrainian army, in his opinion, will not be able to liberate all the cities occupied by the Russians.

He said this while speaking before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Wednesday, January 15.. Rubio said "

“It is important to remain realistic: concessions will be necessary - both from the Russian Federation and from the Ukrainians. And the United States will go for it. It is important that there is some balance on both sides. It will be difficult to achieve a ceasefire and ultimately a peace settlement if both sides do not have leverage,"

Rubio noted that Russian dictator Putin's goal may be to impose a neutral status on Ukraine in order to regain strength and return to war in four to five years.. This is not the result the US wants.

According to the senator, Russia is not capable of occupying all of Ukraine, because Ukrainians are too brave. However, the Ukrainian Armed Forces will not be able to liberate all their territories..

" Ukrainians are too brave, they fight too hard, the country is too big. This won't happen. But it is also unrealistic to believe that somehow a country the size of Ukraine will be able to push Russian troops back to where they were before the invasion,” he said..

However, the destruction as a result of military operations and rocket attacks in Ukraine is extreme; it will take a whole generation to rebuild the country.

“Millions of Ukrainians no longer live in their homeland and it is still unknown how many of them can return and what they will return to. Even as I speak to you, Ukraine's energy infrastructure is collapsing, and restoration will cost hundreds of billions of dollars and several decades.. The official position of the United States must remain that this war must end,"