Secretary of State Marco Rubio said early Friday that the U.S. may "move on" from facilitating Russia-Ukraine peace talks if negotiations continue to prolong. 

Rubio has been working alongside Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff to broker a 30-day ceasefire agreement with Russia and Ukraine, which has not yet been seen to fruition.

“We are now reaching a point where we need to decide whether this is even possible or not,” Rubio told reporters Friday while departing from negotiations with his counterparts in Paris. “Because if it’s not, then I think we’re just going to move on."

“It’s not our war. We have other priorities to focus on," he added, suggesting the U.S. would decide if continued talks were "doable" in a "matter of days."

His comments come after the duo met with European and Ukrainian officials to discuss a plausible path forward for a truce in the three-year-long war.

Rubio made clear that Trump wants to help end the violence but will not continue to stall in efforts to obtain peace. 

“The United States has been helping Ukraine for the past three years and we want it to end, but it’s not our war,” he said.

The secretary also suggested that the U.K., France and Germany can help “move the ball” on negotiations. Officials who met in Paris have agreed to meet again in London next week with hopes of gearing peace talks toward a secured deal. 

Despite Rubio's comments, Vice President Vance said Friday he believes talks will move forward.

“The negotiations, I won’t pre-judge them, but we do feel optimistic that we can hopefully bring this war, this very brutal war to a close,” he told reporters during his visit to Rome, where he met with Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni — a day after she met with President Trump at the White House.

Trump, while on the campaign trail, originally promised to end the conflict in Eastern Europe overnight. When the swift plan to curb the war became less realistic, U.S. advisers granted themselves a six-month timeline to a peace deal.

While ceasefire negotiations have been slow, Trump has maintained that efforts to obtain a minerals deal with Ukraine are picking up pace. The U.S. leader said access to the country’s critical natural resources would provide a strong interest in maintaining Ukraine’s sovereignty and security for years to come. 

Ukrainian Economy Minister Yuliia Svyrydenko said she signed a memorandum of intent with the U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent ahead of a potential agreement. 

“I assume they’re going to live up to the deal, so we’ll see. But we have a deal on that,” Trump said Thursday.

The signed memorandum comes months after the president’s heated exchange with Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelensky in the Oval Office. 

The two leaders had previously agreed to enter a binding minerals agreement in February at the White House during Zelensky’s visit. A clash between the Ukrainian leader and Trump officials, however, led him to abruptly depart with uncertainty about the future of peace talks.