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US senior United States and Russian officials will meet on Tuesday that they are characterized by their efforts to discuss “to end the Ukrainian war and to discuss” restoring all quantum relationships. “
Donald Trump’s administration confirmed that the US Secretary of State Marco Rubio, National Security Advisor Mike Waltz, and Steve Witkoff will meet the Russian delegation of the Saudi capital. I did it. But Ukrainian President VolodyMyr Zelenskyy said KYIV would not participate in the talks and said, “I didn’t know anything about it.”
Zelenskyy spoke from the United Arab Emirates and added: “Ukraine considers all the negotiations in Ukraine without Ukraina as no results and we can’t recognize it. . . Contract for us without us. ”
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, a foreign policy advisor of Vladimir Putin, and Yuri Ushakov, a Russian spokesman, Dmitry Pescov, leads Riyadh’s delegation to Riyadh In I told reporters.
Russia has a meeting with a reaction to Ukraine’s invasion and starting to return from the cold after attempts to be isolated from the West for many years.
Lavrov said, “The president agreed to absolutely leave the Usunjeom in the US Russian relationship, except for the isolated technical and humanitarian issues.
The United States and Western officials described this week’s meeting as logistics and aimed to be able to meet possible meetings between Trump and Putin and the end of the Ukrainian war.
Witkoff said on the Sunday Riyadh talks, “We will make a really good progress in relation to the Russian-Uk in.
The dialogue, which was urgently convened, surprised Ukraine and European allies. The United States said Ukraine could later participate in the conversation, but the United States did not inform Trump’s allies in advance with Putin.
Turkey’s RECEP TAYYIP Erdoğan, who attempted a brokerage in the past conflict, invited Zelenskyy to visit Zelenskyy on Tuesday.
Rubio said, “There is no process.” He expected Ukraine and Europe to eventually participate in any way.
“If we are a real negotiation and we are not there yet, we will have to participate because Ukraine is an invaded people if it happens. And Europeans will have to participate because they have sanctions against Putin and Russia, ”he said.
Russia dismissed Europe’s efforts to take place in peace talks and sent peace to Ukraine.
Lavrov said, “Their desire to be part of the Ukrainian negotiations was more than twice.” Lavrov mentioned that the MINSK course led by France and Germany failed in 2014, and broked the fragile truce following Russia’s initial invasion in 2014. .
As long as European countries want to strengthen Ukraine as Min -Byeong, he added, “I don’t know if there’s anything to do at the negotiation table.”
Peskov said, “It is difficult to talk about Ukraine’s European peacekeeper because it will be placed in the NATO unit with NATO members.”
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer proposed on Monday to “ground boots on boots” in Ukraine ahead of the summit with other European leaders.