Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy met with President Trump's special envoy for Ukraine and Russia, and several European leaders about continuing aid for Ukraine as the war persists.

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Russian forces have invaded Ukraine from land, air and sea with strikes causing widespread damage. Global leaders have condemned the move and imposed sanctions.

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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has engaged in discussions with President Trump's special envoy, Keith Kellogg, focusing on increased American weapons support and the implementation of stricter sanctions on Russia. The talks also highlighted bipartisan U.S. legislative efforts to impose heavy tariffs on countries purchasing Russian energy. 

In Rome, Zelensky attended the Ukraine Recovery Conference, which brought together over 100 governments, 40 international organizations, and more than 2,000 private companies to raise funds for Ukraine's reconstruction. Additionally, Zelensky advocated for the use of frozen Russian assets to aid recovery efforts. Meanwhile, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio is scheduled to meet with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, as Russia continues its drone attacks on Ukraine.

Here's how the world plans to help Ukraine as Russia war persists

As we mentioned, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is in Rome this morning, meeting with allies for a conference on his country's economic recovery. Now ahead of that summit, Zelensky held what he called substantive talks yesterday with President Trump's Ukraine envoy, Keith Kellogg. CBS News foreign correspondent, Rami Innocencio, has reported from and on Ukraine extensively and joins us now. Good morning, Rami. Tell us about Zelensky's meeting with Kellogg. Well, yep, substantive there. He said that his meeting with Kellogg centered on, for one, support for more American weapons, as Natalie was just telling us, and then support for even tougher sanctions on Russia. On the topic of weapons, the expectation here is that the flow will return for things like Patriot missile systems to take down Russian missiles and fighter jets there. Another thing are artillery rounds, the 155-millimeter NATO standard issue, fired not just from American howitzers, but also their Ukrainian equivalents, also Gimler rockets fired from those all-important American HIMARS. Zelensky said that Kellogg also backed a bill, a bill in the U.S. Congress making its way, also a bipartisan one, I should say, that would slap 500 percent terrorists, 500 percent on countries that continue to buy Russian energy. Today, there is more on the schedule for Zelensky. He's a busy man in Rome. He is at the fourth annual Ukraine recovery conference. Mouthful there, but this is a big deal. More than 100 governments are there, represented, including Prime Minister Georgia Maloney. She, of course, is the host, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz. But there's also 40 international organizations, the World Bank, U.N. agencies. And, again, there's more than 2,000 private companies. And they are all there basically looking to matchmake with Ukrainian sectors for rebuilding in things like defense, in resources, in energy. The point of this is to raise more than half a billion dollars for the reconstruction of Ukraine. And I just want to share one thing that's just dropped a line from Zelensky, speaking there right now. He says also that Europe should agree that frozen Russian assets should also go towards Ukraine's recovery. It's not the first time we've heard this, but that totals about $450 billion there. And it just floated that $500 billion number, so you can see there's a little bit of a parallel there. And, Raimi, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio is meant to meet with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov in Malaysia this morning. What might we expect from that? Yeah, halfway around the world, more talks there. And in terms of expectations, I think a lot of tension, Errol, considering they're just meeting after Trump said that U.S. weapons would start going to Ukraine, also after saying that Putin talked a big game about wanting peace, but not really, perhaps. We might expect pushback from Lavrov, maybe carrying a message from President Putin. But, you know, the Kremlin has already positioned itself from coming from a place of peace. The Kremlin yesterday said that they were hopeful that talks would continue. But again, also yesterday, as we started this segment here, Russia launched nearly 400 drones at Ukraine. Yesterday, we were talking about launching 728 drones, the biggest in three years. And military analysts right now are saying that if this continues—and I think many people still are expecting this—that that number of drones could go up to 1,000 per volley by this fall. All right. Rami, thank you very much.

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