Rubio: “Talks” took place to hold a meeting including Trump, Putin, and Xi to end the Ukraine war

(CNN) - US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said on Monday that talks had been held regarding the possibility of holding a meeting between President Donald Trump, Russian President Vladimir Putin, and Chinese leader Xi Jinping, with the aim of ending the Russian war in Ukraine.

In response to a question from a journalist in Uzbekistan about a Wall Street Journal report that Putin suggested holding such a summit during a phone call with Trump earlier this month, Rubio said: “Well, I don’t know. I mean, I think there have been talks about holding a meeting, I don’t know if a final agreement has been reached on it.”

"I think the president is open to anything he can do to help end the war, if that's possible, and we will continue to look for opportunities to make that happen," Rubio added.

“It is clear that we have not yet made the kind of progress we want to make, but it is not for lack of trying,” he said.

According to the Wall Street Journal report, Zelensky will not be included in the summit. The report quoted a prominent American official as saying that Trump did not agree to the summit.

CNN reached out to the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs for comment on the Wall Street Journal report.

Rubio also refuted Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky's claim to NBC News that the United States stopped sharing intelligence information for three days during which Ukraine was subjected to ballistic missile attacks.

“I don’t know where Zelensky gets these things from, or why he says these things to the media,” Rubio said. “Go back to him and ask him. There has been no cessation of (sharing information).”