Secretary of State Marco Rubio is pushing back against claims the Trump administration is sidelining Ukraine in discussions about Russia’s ongoing war, calling such reports “not accurate.”
“I think what the president was irritated by, and rightfully so, was this argument that somehow we haven’t talked to Ukraine,” Rubio said Wednesday on “Fox & Friends.”
He emphasized that President Donald Trump reached out to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy immediately after his recent conversation with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
“I was there for both calls,” Rubio said. “He immediately called Zelenskyy right away.”
Trump has long called for NATO members to increase their financial contributions to the alliance. NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte recently announced that European nations have agreed to raise their defense spending, saying they need to do “much, much more.”
“We’re not saying do your own thing. We’re saying do more. It’s their continent, right?” Rubio said. “Why is it unreasonable for the United States to ask rich European countries to invest more money in their own national security?”
Madison is a production assistant for Fox News Digital on the Flash team.
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