Russia warns US Secretary of State Marco Rubio that arms deliveries to Ukraine are unacceptable, says Lavrov.
MANILA: Russia warned the United States on Thursday against making “unacceptable” arms deliveries to Ukraine, the Russian foreign ministry said in a statement.
Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov “stressed that it was unacceptable to continue supplying weapons to the Kyiv regime” in a meeting with his US counterpart Marco Rubio in Manila, it said.
Lavrov condemned “a destabilising policy by European countries, which are still seeking to inflict a ‘strategic defeat’ on Russia,” in their meeting held on the sidelines of an Asian summit.
He repeated that the Russian side was ready for a “political-diplomatic resolution to the the conflict”, according to the foreign ministry.
The encounter — the first between Lavrov and Rubio since September 2025 — comes at a time that Washington’s focus has switched from mediating in Ukraine to dealing with war in the Middle East.
