Rubio and Lavrov to meet in New York amid U.N. General Assembly

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio met Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov in New York on the sidelines of the U.N. General Assembly, the State Department confirmed. The meeting followed Zelenskyy's Trump sit-down a day earlier, which the Ukrainian president called 'positive' and 'productive,' with both sides saying they want the war ended before winter.

Zelenskyy said Ukraine would hold off striking Russian oil refineries if Moscow stops hitting Ukraine's energy grid and water supply, and repeated his willingness to meet Putin directly. The U.S. delegation at the Trump-Zelenskyy talks included Rubio, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, envoy Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner.

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