By Gram Slattery

SAMARKAND, Oct 19 (Reuters) - Secretary of State Marco Rubio denied on Monday that the United States had paused some ‌intelligence sharing with Ukraine, contradicting Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy who said ‌Washington had briefly done just that.

Speaking to NBC's Meet the Press on Sunday, Zelenskiy had said intelligence ​sharing had been interrupted, but later "de-blocked."

"We are very thankful for this," he said. "Now it works."

But Rubio, speaking to reporters during a visit to Uzbekistan on Monday morning, said intelligence was in fact never interrupted in the first place.

"I ‌don't know where he's getting ⁠these things or why he's saying these things to the press. You should go back and ask him. There's ⁠been no pause," Rubio told reporters after touring Registan Square, a historic complex of madrassas in Samarkand.

"What...