The Kremlin responded on Thursday to Secretary of State Marco Rubio's recently saying the war between Russia and Ukraine is in fact a proxy war between the U.S. and Russia and that Russia President Vladimir Putin agrees with that statement.

"It's been very clear from the beginning that U.S. President Donald Trump views this as a protracted, stalemated conflict," Rubio told Fox News's Sean Hannity in an interview on Wednesday. "And frankly, it's a proxy war between nuclear powers – the United States, helping Ukraine, and Russia – and it needs to come to an end."

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov stated that Moscow agreed with Rubio's assessment, adding that the country officials said many times before that  it has been between Russia and the Western countries, led by the U.S, according to Reuters and other news outlets.

"We can and want to agree with it, and we agree with it," Peskov said. "That's the way it is. We have said this repeatedly. So it is absolutely in line with the position that our president and foreign minister have repeatedly expressed. We have said this repeatedly, and yes, we agree that it is time to stop this conflict and this war."