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The Kremlin said the United States and Russian officials would meet in Riyadh on Tuesday to discuss “restoration of all bilateral relations” and to discuss the Ukraine war to end the war, Kremlin.
Russian President spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters on Monday that Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and Vladimir Putin’s foreign policy adviser Yuri Ushakov will lead the delegation.
US Foreign Office spokesman Tamie Bruce said US Secretary of State Marco Rubio, National Security Advisor Mike Waltz and Special Envoy Steve Witcoof will meet the Russian delegation. Rubio will meet Saudi officials on Monday before Russia talks.
The United States and Western officials have described this week’s meetings as logical, and at the end of preparing for a possible meeting between President Donald Trump and Putin War Between Russia and Ukraine.
“We hope we will make some good progress on Russia-Ukraine,” told Fox News on Sunday in the context of the Riyadh discussion.
Russia In response to Ukraine’s aggression, the Western is framing the meeting as the beginning of winter after several years of Western attempts.
At a press conference on Monday, Lavrov said, “Presidents agreed to leave this absolutely ridiculous time in US-Russia relations when they did not speak except the isolated technical and human issues.” He added that the Russian delegation would “listen” and “ready to respond” to its US partners.
There are discussions to be called early Ukraine and its European allies fearedThe The United States has not already notified the allies of Trump’s call to Putin and has taken away most of them from the process, though it says that Ukraine may join the next date.
Rubio said that there is still a “no process” to end the war, and the team is searching for a way to create. He said that he had finally hoped to involve Ukraine and Europe in some way.
“If this is a true discussion, and we are not there yet, if it happened, Ukraine must be involved, because they attacked. And Europeans have to be involved because they are also banned from Putin and Russia, “he said on the CBS.
Russia has rejected European efforts to discuss peace and probably to create a place Send a peacekeeping team To Ukraine.
Referring to the French and Germany -led Minsk -led Minsk process after Russia’s initial aggression in the 21st, Lavrov said, “Their desire to be part of the Ukraine discussion process has been satisfied multiple times.”
As long as European countries want to strengthen Ukraine militarily, “I don’t know if they have anything to do at the negotiating table,” he added.
Peskov said it was difficult to talk about Ukraine’s European peacekeeping forces “because it will involve NATO members and” NATO troops will be deployed in the Ukrainian region “.
