Almost all of NATO's foreign ministers gathered in Brussels on Wednesday, a day after inconclusive Ukraine peace talks between the United States and President Vladimir Putin , and as European officials struggled for a seat at the negotiating table.

NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte said that despite the absence of Secretary of State Marco Rubio — believed to be the first time in 22 years that America's top diplomat did not attend a ministerial gathering of this kind — he remained "very much involved" in the process.

Rutte later told journalists that President Donald Trump’s efforts were central to ending the war.

“There is only one person in the whole world who was able to break the deadlock ... and that is the American President,” he told reporters.

Deputy Secretary of State Chr

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