Rubio also admitted that a Black Sea ceasefire has proved hard to achieve because the strikes there have strategic value for both combatants.

On Wednesday, US secretary of state Marco Rubio will visit Jamnagar as part of a three-day trip to India as the Trump administration seeks to push down high global diesel prices. Rubio will meet Reliance’s billionaire owner and chair Mukesh Ambani after talks with his Indian counterpart S Jaishankar in Mumbai on Tuesday.

This war is honestly about one part of Ukraine called Donetsk. The Russians occupy all but about 11% of that area, says Marco Rubio

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio, who is on a three-day visit to India, has denied that the US is deliberately withholding Patriot interceptors from Ukraine as concerns grow over delayed weapons supplies and Trump's approach to Russia.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said the change happened after talks with his American counterparts, including a phone call with U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio.

The US is making another push to broaden its influence in resource-rich Central Asia and the Caucasus, with Secretary of State Marco Rubio visiting Uzbekistan, as American businesses are expected to sign deals with regional companies.

Secretary of ⁠State ⁠Marco Rubio denied on ⁠Monday that the United States had paused some intelligence sharing ​with Ukraine, contradicting Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy who said Washington had briefly done ‌just that.