Secretary of State Marco Rubio met with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov in Malaysia Thursday at a meeting of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations. The meeting put the Russia-Ukraine war at the center of a trip that was meant to strengthen alliances in Southeast Asia.

Rubio said he was unable to provide a date for any potential meeting but said there was a “strong desire on both sides to do it.”

Rubio emerged from that Thursday meeting calling it a "frank" conversation in which he relayed Trump's "frustration" for Moscow's inflexible approach to the negotiating table for peace in Ukraine.