“This is about peacemaking, and that implies negotiations,” Mills told Newsmax’s “Sunday Report.” “In peacemaking, you have to both parties. Both parties have to be interested in stopping the fighting. I’m not absolving either side here.”

His comments came in response to an interview by Secretary of State Marco Rubio Sunday, in which he told ABC News’ “This Week” that while Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is demanding security agreements in connection with signing a deal with the United States on mineral rights, “you first have to have a peace” before such agreements can be signed. 

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