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.

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio will meet his Russian counterpart in Malaysia for what could be a testy conversation as tensions between the countries rise over Moscow’s increasing attacks on Ukra