Russia says warned Rubio against arms deliveries to Ukraine

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.