Russia has once again rejected calls for a ceasefire in the war in Ukraine, with Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov telling the UN Security Council in New York that any pause in fighting would simply be used by certain countries to "flood Ukraine with weapons." Lavrov reiterated that Moscow is open to negotiations toward a lasting peace but is unwilling to merely "pause" the conflict. On the sidelines of the UN General Assembly, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio met with Lavrov and afterwards announced that President Putin has been invited to the G20 summit (the annual gathering of the world's largest economies), scheduled for December in Miami — the first such invitation since Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.