He noted that the conflict "almost certainly" will end through diplomacy and negotiations.
“I believe we should see a just and lasting peace,” RIA Novosti quoted him as saying.
Blinken added that Washington wants to avoid a "contrived" peace for Ukraine.
On December 4, Joseph Joffe of the Johns Hopkins School of International Studies said that American leader Joe Biden was signaling Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky about the need for negotiations with Moscow.
Journalist Ted Snyder expressed the opinion that Zelensky's speech about the Minsk agreements, which he delivered during his speech at the G20 summit in Bali, contradicts the history of Russian-Ukrainian relations.