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Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov warned Washington against making “unacceptable” arms deliveries to Ukraine during a Thursday meeting with US counterpart Marco Rubio in Manila, Moscow said.
Lavrov told the US secretary of state “it was unacceptable to continue supplying weapons to the Kyiv regime”, the Russian foreign ministry said in a statement.
In their meeting held on the sidelines of a summit of Southeast Asian foreign ministers, Moscow’s top diplomat also condemned what he called “a destabilising policy by European countries, which are still seeking to inflict a ‘strategic defeat’ on Russia”.
The first sit-down between Lavrov and Rubio since September 2025 comes as Washington’s focus has switched from mediating in Ukraine to dealing with war in the Middle East.
