Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Sunday kicked off high-stakes talks with a Ukrainian delegation in Florida, as the US pushes to end Russia's war there.

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio plans to skip a meeting of NATO foreign ministers in Brussels next week, two U.S. officials said, in a highly unusual absence of the top U.S. diplomat from a key transatlantic gathering.

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio is reportedly expected to skip next week's NATO foreign ministers' meeting in Brussels. Rubio's Expected No-Show Raises Alarm Among Allies Deputy Secretary of State Christopher Landau is set to attend instead,

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Saturday that a delegation headed by security council secretary Rustem Umerov was on its way to the United States to continue talks on an agreement to end Russia's war.