US strongly urges Russia to stop fighting and says there is no military solution to conflict

He said the US hoped to have a positive answer from Russia, and ''strongly urge Russians to end all hostilities.''

''There is no military solution to this conflict,'' he said.

Rubio also confirmed that Tuesday’s talks in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, covered ''what a negotiation process would look like,'' and included ''conversations about territorial concessions.''