Ukraine-Russia war latest: Rubio skips key meeting with European leaders but set for Zelensky talks
US secretary of state Marco Rubio skipped a Berlin Format meeting on Ukraine on the sidelines of the Munich Security Conference, the Financial Times reported.
He had been expected to join leaders from nearly a dozen European countries, including Germany, Poland and Finland, as well as officials from the European Commission and Nato, but cancelled at the last minute, citing scheduling conflicts.
He was, however, set to meet Volodymyr Zelensky on Saturday.
The Ukrainian president, meanwhile, agreed to hold elections if Donald Trump managed to push Vladimir Putin to a ceasefire.
In an interview with Politico on Friday, Zelensky said elections would be a “great idea”. Conducting the elections would require not “necessarily an end to the war”, he added, but a ceasefire for two or three months.
His comments came after Trump warned Zelensky that he was “going to have to get moving” if he wanted to reach a peace deal with Moscow.
The next round of trilateral talks will be held in Geneva next week, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Friday.
