New Delhi, Feb. 16 -- US Secretary of State Marco Rubio met with Volodymyr Zelensky on Saturday (February 14) on the sidelines of the Munich Security Conference, as efforts to negotiate an end to the Ukraine-Russia war intensify ahead of planned talks in Geneva next week. Both leaders discussed security cooperation, defence ties and preparations for trilateral negotiations involving the US, Ukraine and Russia.

In a post on X, Rubio shared a photo with Zelensky and wrote that President Donald Trump "wants a solution that ends the bloodshed once and for all," underscoring the administration's aim to bring a durable peace to the nearly four-year conflict.

Zelensky said he had also spoken with Trump's envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner ...