The top US and Russian diplomats met in a new push to find an end to Moscow's more-than-four-year-old war on Ukraine, but both sides signaled no new breakthroughs or cause for optimism. "The United States...is prepared to play a constructive role in bringing about an end to a senseless war," Rubio said when pressed by RFE/RL. Asked later by RFE/RL about when Russia will stop the war, Lavrov appeared to either ignore the question or not hear it. The Kremlin has insisted that, in Anchorage, Trump and Putin reached a key agreement on ending the Ukraine war. A long-range drone campaign by Ukraine has choked Russian gasoline refineries, and Russia continues to ravage Ukrainian cities with ballistic missiles and drones.