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Secretary of State Marco Rubio says Ukraine has hit American-linked ships and oil supplies multiple times in recent months, though he believes the strikes were not intentional.

Getting into it: Rubio made the comments Tuesday on “Fox & Friends,” hours before President Trump was set to meet Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky at the UN General Assembly. He didn’t identify any of the ships or explain what exactly makes them American-linked, and the State Department declined to comment.

“The one thing we are concerned about, however, is that over the last few months on a number of occasions American-linked ships, American oil supplies, have been targeted — probably not deliberately — but targeted nonetheless by Ukraine,” Rubio said. “So that’s something that needs to be addressed. We can’t have that happen. That’s why the president has wanted to end this war.”

The comments appear to point to Novorossiysk, the Russian Black Sea port that handles exports for the Caspian Pipeline Consortium (CPC). The pipeline moves oil out of Kazakhstan, and Chevron and ExxonMobil are among its biggest stakeholders. The Financial Times reported that Vice President JD Vance asked Zelensky in late July to stop hitting tankers using that terminal, and Kyiv agreed to leave CPC infrastructure alone, as well as any non-Russian ships it hasn’t sanctioned.

Rubio also threw his support behind a pause on energy strikes from both sides, which Zelensky called for Monday. “We think that would be a great idea, an energy infrastructure of cease fire, in which you’re not- Ukraine’s infrastructure is not being targeted. Russian energy supplies are not being targeted as well. It’s an ideal outcome,” he said.

This all comes as Ukraine has significantly ramped up its attacks on Russian shipping and oil infrastructure this year in an effort to cut off funding for Russia’s war effort.