It added that peace is achievable if all sides commit to reaching an agreement.
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Thursday met with Ukrainian officials and European allies in Paris before holding a phone call with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, the State Department said.
During the call, Rubio conveyed to Lavrov "the same message the U.S. team communicated to the Ukrainian delegation and our European allies in Paris: President Trump and the United States want this war to end, and have now presented to all parties the outlines of a durable and lasting peace," State Department spokeswoman Tammy Bruce said in a statement.
"The encouraging reception in Paris to the U.S. framework shows that peace is possible if all parties commit to reaching an agreement," the statement added.
Senior Ukrainian officials and representatives from the United States, the Euroopean Union and Britain discussed long‑term security guarantees for Kyiv during their meeting in Paris on Thursday, according to reports.
The Ukrainian delegation included presidential chief of staff Andriy Yermak, Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha and Defence Minister Rustem Umerov.
Representing the United States were Rubio, special diplomatic envoy Steve Witkoff, and Keith Kellogg, Trump's special envoy for Ukraine.
The US State Department said ahead of the talks that Rubio and Witkoff would use the meeting to "advance President Trump’s goal of ending the bloodshed in the Russia‑Ukraine war."
France and the UK are leading European efforts to devise future security arrangements for Ukraine.
Russia has repeatedly said that Ukraine must recognise the formal annexation of four of its regions by Moscow and abandon any aspirations of joining the NATO alliance, the Reuters news agency reported.
Russia launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine on February 24, 2022, starting the largest armed conflict in Europe since World War II.
Thursday is day 1,148 of Russia's war on Ukraine.
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Source: IAR, PAP, state.gov, Reuters