US Secretary of State Marco Rubio admitted that the conflict on Ukraine is a proxy war between two nuclear powers — the United States and Russia.

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio held a call with French Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barrot about "bringing an end to the Russia-Ukraine war," the State Department said on Friday.

The Kremlin said on Thursday that U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio's view that the Ukraine conflict is a proxy war between the United States and Russia is in line with Russian President Vladimir Putin's own assessment.

We can and want to agree with this, and we do agree with it. That’s how it is. We have said this many times,” Peskov said. He framed Russia’s war on Ukraine as a “conflict between Russia and the collective West,