State Secretary Marco Rubio said on Friday that Russia was running out of time to convince Trump’s administration that he was seriously in line with the peace agreement with Ukraine, not just playing time.

Speaking in Brussels after a two-day gathering of NATO ministers, Mr. Rubio said the United States was losing their patience with “conversations about conversations” and hinted that Russia had threatened more US sanctions.

“We will know soon, in a few weeks, not months, whether Russia is serious in peace or not,” he told reporters. Congress members, he added, already produce new sanctions that the administration officials “will not be able to stop” without signs of progress.

President Trump vowed that he would end the war in Ukraine and interviewed the conversations between Moscow and Kyiva. Many observers assumed that Russia would accept such an agreement, and Ukraine would resist him, since Russia occupies about fifths of neighbors and suffered astonishing victims.

But Mr. Rubioa’s remarks were the latest sign that Trump’s administration came around the point of view that was long held by the Biden administration, and the gentleman himself, when he was a Senator in Florida: that President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia disagreed in good faith.

Many analysts say the Russian leader stops time to press his military and political advantage.

Mr. Rubio spoke after a gathering of NATO, whose collegial photo oops and a press statement masked the deep tension between America and Europe over Ukraine, Mr. Trump’s tariffs and even Greenland’s fate.

Mr. Rubio also conveyed Mr. Trump’s expectation for NATO members to dramatically increase their consumption to their military lists to 5 percent of their gross domestic product – a heavy pill for swallowing Europe because Mr. Trump’s Tariffs threaten his economy.

In the example to the press, Mr. Rubio defended Mr. Trump’s tariff, but he gripped a time strip for increased military consumption as “a way to get up to 5 percent at some point.” He said that other NATO members were “open to more” so that the Alliance would be stronger and relied less on the United States.

A senior State Department official admitted that the tariffs came when Mr. Rubio met with his fellow ministers to talk about Ukraine. But the clerk, speaking of a background to discuss private diplomacy, insisted that the mood in the room was collegial.

However, there were reason to believe that US officials hoped that they would get obvious tension during the event.

After Mr. Rubio met on Thursday with the Danish Foreign Minister, Lars Lokke Rasmussen, the summary of the Bland State Department characterized the meeting as a “confirmation” of the US-derk relationship. He did not mention Greenland, the semi -Autonic Danish territory that Mr. Trump vowed to control in any way.

But Mr. Rasmussen said in a pointed Social media The post that he “became crystal clear” Mr Rubiou “that the claims and statements of the annexation of Greenland are not only unacceptable and dishonest. They represent a violation of international law.”

In response on Friday, Mr. Rubio suggested that the United States would not need to capture Greenland because the people of the island, he said, already want to leave Denmark. “We didn’t give them that idea,” he said. “They’ve been talking about it for a long time.”

Although it is true that Greenland was on his way to complete independence, there are few signs that he hopes to become an American estate.

Despite the conversation of Mr. Trump to unlock a new connection in the United States in Ukraine in Ukraine, the Kremlin only agreed with very partial terms of fire interruption, including a break on attacks at the energy infrastructure sites, which neither side noticed.

However, European governments are worried that Mr. Trump – a fan of Mr. Putin and a common critic of Ukrainian President, Volodimir Zelenski – can prioritize Russian interests in any peace agreement, and they press their own efforts for the protection of Ukraine.

On Friday, the French and British military leaders visited Kiev to discuss the potential distribution of the troops to ensure any dedication fire, including air defense and military presence on land and at sea, Mr. Zelensky reporters told reporters.

Other countries also talk about providing peacekeeping forces, he added, refusing to identify them.

Mr. Zelensky said that working on the Allied implementation in Ukraine in the course of two months, but it will take another month before any agreement is reached.

“It was a serious, constructive conversation today,” he said. “We’ll continue at the meeting.”

Kremlin says he will not tolerate the troops of Member States NATO -AU Ukraine.

In Brussels, Mr. Rubio also denied that Trump’s administration was to close the US International Development Agency prevented an American disaster from a disaster to quickly reach Mjanmar after a devastating earthquake there last week.

Mr. Rubio blamed the delay for the Myanmar Hunt, without quoting evidence, and said that other rich nations, including China and India, should contribute more. “We are the richest country in the world, but our resources are not unlimited,” he said.

Maria Varenikov contributed to reporting from Kiyiva, Ukraine.