Russian President Vladimir Putin has sent more than 100,000 of his troops to their deaths in Ukraine in 2025 alone — but even that hasn’t dampened his will to continue his invasion, Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Thursday after meeting with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

“It’s important to note that since January of this year, as an example just to give you, on the Russian side, they’ve lost 100,000 soldiers – dead – not injured – dead,” Rubio told reporters after the meeting. “And on the Ukrainian side, the numbers are less but still very significant.”

The meeting came just two days after President Trump voiced his growing frustration with Moscow trying to “bulls—” him on their willingness to end their war on Ukraine.

Rubio told reporters that he and Lavrov exchanged ideas for continued peace negotiations, calling the strategy discussed “a new and a different approach.”

“I wouldn’t characterize it as something that guarantees a peace, but it’s a concept that, you know, that I’ll take back to the president,” he said, without elaborating.

The secretary also added that Trump has been “disappointed and frustrated that there’s not been more flexibility on the Russian side” to end its war, as demonstrated in the president’s Tuesday remarks.

“We hope that can change,” Rubio said. “We need to see a road map moving forward about how this conflict can conclude.”

The secretary added that he and Lavrov “shared some ideas about what that might look like” before pledging that the Trump administration would “continue to stay involved where we see opportunities to make a difference.”

Russia’s Foreign Ministry described the meeting on the sidelines of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) foreign ministers’ gathering as a “substantive and frank exchange of views” on issues including crises in Ukraine, Iran and Syria.

“Both countries reaffirmed their mutual commitment to finding peaceful solutions to conflicts, restoring Russian-American economic and humanitarian cooperation, and unimpeded contact between the societies of the two countries, something which could be facilitated by resuming direct air traffic,” the statement said.

“The importance of further work to normalize bilateral diplomatic relations was also emphasized.”

Following the nearly hour-long meeting with Lavrov, Rubio gave an update on the sanctions bill currently before the Senate that would slap 500% tariffs on any country that imports Russian oil — Moscow’s main source of funding for its brutal war on Ukraine.

“We’ve been engaging with Congress on what that bill would look like,” he said, indicating that some progress has been made.

“[Trump] has talked about that as being a real option, and now, obviously, we’ve been engaging with the Senate in particular over the last week on what that bill will look like, and the leaders of both chambers have said that they’re prepared to begin to move forward on that.”

Sens. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) and Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) were in Rome on Thursday to brief European leaders on the legislation, Graham’s office told The Post.

The president’s patience with Putin has been running thin, particularly as the Russian leader has been unwilling to stop his attacks on Ukraine, which culminated this week with a record-setting launch of 728 Shahed and decoy drones and 13 cruise and ballistic missiles in a single night.

“A lot of people are dying and it should end,” the president complained to reporters during a Cabinet meeting on Tuesday. “We get a lot of bulls— thrown at us by Putin, if you want to know the truth. He’s very nice all the time, but it turns out to be meaningless.”