U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio speaks during an appearance with Kuwaiti Foreign Minister Sheikh Jarrah Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah (not pictured) at the State Department in Washington, D.C., Thursday. Reuters-Yonhap
WASHINGTON — U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio faced four different congressional panels this week on Washington's role in various global conflicts, but the war in Ukraine barely came up.
With the Trump administration consumed by the crisis in Iran, Ukraine has largely dropped off the radar, despite increasingly deadly attacks from Russia.
Speaking in Kyiv a day after 23 people were killed across Ukraine in the latest massive Russian aerial assault, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Wednesday lamented dwindling U.S. attention.
"Today we are not in focus," Zelensky said alongside visiting NATO chief Mark Rutte. "Iran is the number one issue for the United States of America, and then comes the issue of Ukraine. Unfortunately, we are in the queue of these wars."
