The top diplomats from Russia and the USA met in Saudi Arabia on Tuesday to discuss the improvement of the ties and to negotiate an end to the war in Ukraine, in conversations that have a quick and great change in American foreign policy under US -President Donald Trump.
No Ukrainian officials were present at the meeting, since the oppressed country in a grinding war that began almost three years ago was slowly losing more Russian troops against more Russian troops.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said that his country would not accept any results from the talks of this week if Kyiv does not participate. European allies have also expressed concerns that they fail.
In addition to Ukraine, the meeting at which the US Foreign Minister Marco Rubio, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and other high -ranking civil servants took part in the thawing of relationships between the two countries, the connections of which have been at their lowest level for decades have fallen. It should pave the way for a meeting between Trump and the Russian President Vladimir Putin.
The meeting is the most extensive contact between the two countries since February 24, 2022, the invasion of Ukraine, on February 24, 2022.
“President Putin has repeated his words about his readiness for peace discussions from the start,” the spokesman for Kremlin Dmitry Peskov told reporters. Peskov found that “a comprehensive settlement, a long -term agreement, a sustainable settlement” of the conflict in Ukraine without “comprehensive consideration of security problems” in Europe is impossible.
Tammy Bruce, spokesman for the US State Department, said the meeting aimed at determining how seriously the Russians want with peace and whether detailed negotiations can be started. Bruce said that Ukraine, although Ukraine is not at the table on Tuesday, will include all the actual peace negotiations.
Kyiv’s participation in such talks was a foundation of US policy under Trump’s predecessor Joe Biden, whose administration also led international efforts to insulate Russia through war. Officials from the White House have also withdrawn against the idea that Europe was taken out of the conversation and found that the administrative officers spoke to several leaders.
Trump envoy meets the EU leader
The latest US -Diplomatic flash in the war sent Ukraine and the most important allies to ensure a seat at the table, since Washington and Moscow could drive a deal that is not cheap for them. Kyiv’s absence in the talks on Tuesday rated many Ukrainians, and France appointed an emergency meeting of the European Union and Great Britain on Monday to discuss the war.
French President Emmanuel Macron said on Tuesday that he spoke to Trump and Zelenskyy by phone after the meeting in Paris.
The European heads of state and government met in Paris on Monday to donate to the ongoing Ukraine secretary when the United States progresses the peace talks with Russia.
“We are looking for a strong and permanent peace in Ukraine,” wrote Macron on the Social Media platform X. “To achieve this, Russia must end its aggression, and this must be accompanied by strong and credible security guarantees for the Ukrainians” , he said.
The President of the EU Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, said on Tuesday that Europe will work together in talks to end Ukrainklieg, Trump’s Ukraine -sent Kellogg on Tuesday.
“Financially and militarily, Europe has brought Europe more on the table than anyone else,” she said in a post on the X Social Media platform X Social Media after making Kellogg in Brussels. “And we’ll climb.”
In an explanation of the Leyens office said that during the meeting, she repeatedly had to respect the independence, sovereignty and territorial integrity of Ukraine, which are supported by strong security guarantees “.
She also outlined the Europe’s plans to “scale the production and expenditure of defense and to strengthen both European and Ukrainian military skills,” says her office.
Several world leaders and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy reacted with skepticism to the plan of US President Donald Trump to convey an end to the war through discussions with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Overnight drone flood
In the meeting at the Diriyah Palace in the Saudi capital of Riad, the efforts of Facto leader of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman’s efforts to be an important diplomatic player are also a reputation that is difficult to cloud through the murder of the Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi 2018 became. Saudi state media described the talks like the direction of the prince.
Zelenskyy said he would travel to the kingdom later this week.
Rubio was accompanied by the US security advisor Mike Waltz and the special envoy Steve Witkoff, while Lavrov was sitting next to the external consultant of Kremlin, Yuri Ushakov.
Saudi Foreign Minister Faisal Bin Farhan and the national security advisor Musaed Al Alban joined Rubio, Lavrov and others at the beginning of the meeting, but it was expected to leave at the beginning of the discussions.
In the meantime, according to Kyiv’s military, Russia continued to pumble Ukraine with drones. The Ukrainian Air Force said that Russian troops had launched a flood of 176 drones overnight in Ukraine, most of which were destroyed or hindered by Jamming.
A Russian drone met a residential building in Dolynska in the Kirovohrad region, wounded a mother and her two children and prompted the regional administration to evacuate 38 apartments. According to the local officials, four other residential buildings in the Cherkasy region of Ukraine were damaged by drone waste.
