US and Russian officials to meet in Saudi Arabia

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Tuesday’s high-ranking US officials will meet in Riyadh “Restoration of all bilateral relations” and to launch possible talks to end the war in Ukraine, Kremlin said.

On Monday, he told reporters that Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and Yurimi Ushakov, Vladimir Ushakov, Russian President’s Spokesman Dmitry Peskov.

US Secretary of State Marco Rubions, National Security Advisor Mike Walts and Special Envoy Steve Wittoff will meet with the Russian delegation, spokesman for the US State Department Tammy Bruce said. Russia will meet with Saudi officials ahead of the talks on Monday.

US and Western officials described the meetings this week as a logical and aiming to prepare for the possible meeting between President Donald Trump and Putin war Between Russia and Ukraine.

“I hope that we will make it really good progress to Russia-Ukraine,” Witkoff said on Sunday, citing Riyad’s talks.

Russia The meeting decores the beginning of its return after the cold cold after the Western Western experiments in response to Ukraine’s invasion.

“The presidents agreed to leave this absolutely ridiculous period in US-Russia relations, when they did not speak significantly, except for isolated technical and humanitarian problems. The Russian delegation will “listen” to its American counterparts and “ready to respond,” he added.

Have a delayed negotiations The Ukraine and the European allies have zealedA number of US did not inform his allies about Trump’s call, and greatly left them out of the process, although he said that later Ukraine could join the talks.

Rubio said that it is still “no process” to put an end to war and that the team studied the forms of creating one. He said he expects us to be involved in some way to engage Ukraine and Europe.

“If it’s real negotiations, we are not there yet, but if it happened, Ukraine will have to be involved, because they are invaded. And the Europeans must be involved, as they also have sanctions on Putin and Russia, “he said.

Russia has rejected European efforts in peace talks and is possible Send a peacekeeper to Ukraine.

“The desire to part of the Ukrainian negotiation process has been met more than once,” Lavrov said, citing the failed process of Minsk, who ruled Russia’s initial invasion.

As long as European countries want to strengthen Ukraine militarily. “I don’t know if they will do anything for them,” he added.

Peskov said that “it is difficult to talk about European peacekeeping force in Ukraine, as it will include NATO members and” NATO troops will be deployed in Ukraine. “