US secretary of state has ‘substantive and frank’ conversation with Russian foreign minister over situation in Ukraine
Separately, US state secretary Marco Rubio met earlier today with Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov on the sidelines of the Asean gathering in Malaysia.
Rubio told reporters after the meeting that he expressed “disappointment and frustration” to his Russian counterpart over the lack of progress on resolving the Ukraine war.
“I echoed what the president [Donald Trump] said, both a disappointment and frustration at the lack of progress,” he said, saying it was “a frank, important conversation.”
Moscow described the meeting as a “substantive and frank exchange of views.”
