Rubio: if we sanction Russia more "we probably lose our ability to talk to them about the ceasefire"
Also Rubio: ceasefire progress is stalled because "Our sense of it is that the Russians are going to try to achieve in the battlefield what they’ve demanded in the negotiating table"
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/06/25/trump-rubio-sanctions-russia-nato-00422668