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US Secretary of State Marco Rubio sits next to US National Security Advisor Mike Waltz and US Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff during a meeting with Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan Al Saud, Saudi National Security Advisor Mosaad bin Mohammad Al-Aiban, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and Russian President Vladimir Putin's foreign policy advisor Yuri Ushakov, at Diriyah Palace, in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, February 18, 2025. — Reuters
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According to AFP, Russia and the United States on Tuesday agreed to set up teams to discuss the path to end the war in Ukraine. Had
Washington noted that after the first high -level official of Washington Moscow, after the attack on Ukraine in 2022, there will be a seat at a “time” at a “time” negotiating table.
Some European leaders, who are afraid to look at President Donald Trump’s US policy about Russia, fear that Washington will give serious privileges from Moscow and rewrite continent’s security arrangements in a Cold War -style deal –
Ukrainian President Wolodmeer Zelannsky criticized his nation for excluding his nation from Riyadh gathering, which lasted for more than four hours.
He said that the purpose of any dialogue should be “fair” to end the war and should include European countries, including Turkey, which offered to host talks.
Referring to the launch of a dialogue without Ukraine, a senior Ukrainian official told AFP, “It will only feed Putin’s appetite.”
The US Department of State said that US Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov “agreed to the appointment of relevant high -level teams to start working on the way to end the conflict in Ukraine as soon as possible”.
Washington added that the sides have also agreed to establish “consultation procedures” to tackle Russia and US relations, and note that the parties will lay the foundation for future cooperation.
President Vladimir Putin’s foreign policy assistant, Yuri Ishakov, confirmed the appointment of negotiating teams, but said it was “difficult” to discuss the date of Trump Putin’s possible meeting.
Listened to each other
The meeting identified a major diplomatic uprising for Moscow, which was separated for three years under the then President Joe Biden’s former US administration.
Moscow’s economic negotiator, Kerala Dmitrio, said the Western efforts to isolate Russia “have failed clearly”, negotiating.
Lavrov told reporters, “We have not only heard each other but have heard each other, and the reason I believe is that the American party has better understood our status.”
The experienced diplomat noted that Russia has opposed any deployment of NATO national troops in Ukraine as part of the final ceasefire.
European allies have turned publicly on the question of whether they will be open to send Ukraine to war.
British Prime Minister Kerry Starmer said he was ready to consider committing British troops.
On Tuesday, French President Emmanuel Macron told a regional newspaper when Paris was not preparing to send ground troops, which in front of the conflict, on the front, “in front of” experts or even soldiers in limited terms. I was not preparing to send, out of anything, out of anything. “
Meanwhile, German Chancellor Olaf Schools said any debate on the matter was “completely premature”.
Macron said that after an emergency meeting in Paris on Monday, he would host another round of talks with European and non -European countries on Wednesday, with very few important European countries gathered.
Russia, while outline some of its views on future talks, argued that European defense agreements need to be reorganized to decide the war.
Moscow has long demanded the withdrawal of NATO forces from Eastern Europe, and sees the alliance as a existential threat to its lines.
Before invading Ukraine in February 2022, Moscow demanded that NATO be expelled out of Central and Eastern Europe.
Warning that Russia is trying to divide the West, the European Union’s top diplomat Kaja Kalas told Rubio in a post on X, “Let’s not walk in their nets”, adding “Ukraine’s On the terms “peace can be achieved.
Rubio informed key European ministers about the Riyadh talks on Tuesday, recognizing that Europe would need to join at any time.
Rubio told them, “There are other parties that have sanctions (on Russia), the European Union will have to be at the table at some point because they have restrictions.”
How to start negotiations
Negotiations began in Riyadh’s Deiria Palace in Riyadh without any hands.
Both Russia and the United States cast a Tuesday meeting as the beginning of a long process, and it reduced the chances of progress.
Trump has said he wants to end the war in Ukraine, but has not yet offered any concrete plans.
The United States has told both sides that if there is a dialogue, there will be privileges.
Speaking at the summit, Russia said that even abandoning the territory of Ukraine occupying the territory could not be “thinking”.
The Kremlin said Tuesday that Ukraine had the “right” to join the European Union, but not NATO’s military alliance.
It also said that Putin is “ready” to communicate with Zilnsky “if necessary.
But he once again questioned his “legal status”-which is a reference to his five-year term last year, yet Ukraine’s law does not need elections during the war.
Ukrainian leader Recep Tayyip was in Turkey on Tuesday to discuss the dispute with Erdogan.
