Kaja Kallas, the European Union's top diplomat, spoke by phone with Marco Rubio, the incoming US Secretary of State. Source: Kaja Kallas on X (Twitter), as reported by European Pravda Details: Kallas described the discussion with Rubio as a "good call".

KYIV — U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Ukraine's Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha have both been invited to a planned Feb. 12 meeting of EU foreign ministers in Brussels. The invites were confirmed to POLITICO by two Ukrainian diplomatic officials, granted anonymity to speak on the sensitive matter.

European Union foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas and U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio discussed the Ukraine war, Iran and China on Tuesday in their first phone call since the Trump administration took office on Jan.

Both officials agreed on the importance of “continuing to exert maximum pressure on Russia to achieve a just and sustainable peace in Ukraine.” The conversation also touched on the need to strengthen cooperation between the EU and the United States,