High-level discussions set for US-Russia relations and Ukraine peace
Top Russian officials will hold talks with U.S. counterparts on restoring ties, negotiating a peaceful settlement to the war in Ukraine and preparing a meeting between Russian President Vladimir Putin and U.S. President Donald Trump, the Kremlin said Monday.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said that Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and Putin바카라 게임 웹사이트s foreign affairs adviser Yuri Ushakov will fly to the Saudi capital later in the day to take part in the talks set for Tuesday.
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio will lead the U.S. delegation. Trump바카라 게임 웹사이트s envoy Steve Witkoff told Fox 온라인 바카라 게임 Sunday that he and national security adviser Mike Waltz also will take part in the talks.
Peskov said the talks will be primarily focused on 바카라 게임 웹사이트restoring the entire complex of U.S.-Russian relations, as well as preparing possible talks on the Ukrainian settlement and organizing a meeting of the two presidents."
Speaking to journalists on a conference call from the United Arab Emirates on Monday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said his country won바카라 게임 웹사이트t take part in the talks this week, adding that they would 바카라 게임 웹사이트yield no results,바카라 게임 웹사이트 given the absence of any Ukrainian officials. European governments have also demanded a role.
The talks follow last week바카라 게임 웹사이트s telephone call between Trump and Putin in which Trump said they 바카라 게임 웹사이트agreed to have our respective teams start negotiations immediately.바카라 게임 웹사이트 The call upended years of U.S. policy, ending the isolation of Moscow over its Feb. 24, 2022, invasion of Ukraine. After the call with Putin, Trump phoned to inform him about their conversation.
Trump on Sunday told reporters that Zelenskyy 바카라 게임 웹사이트will be involved,바카라 게임 웹사이트 but did not elaborate.
Zelenskyy said he would travel to Turkey on Monday and to Saudi Arabia on Wednesday, but that his trip to the Arab nation was unrelated to planned U.S.-Russia talks there on Tuesday.
Andriy Yermak, a top Zelenskyy adviser, said earlier Sunday there was no possibility of Ukrainian and Russian representatives meeting directly in the immediate future. In a Telegram post, Yermak said the Ukrainians weren바카라 게임 웹사이트t planning to do so 바카라 게임 웹사이트until we develop a plan바카라 게임 웹사이트 to end the war and bring about a 바카라 게임 웹사이트just peace.바카라 게임 웹사이트
Speaking on Fox 온라인 바카라 게임 Channel바카라 게임 웹사이트s 바카라 게임 웹사이트Sunday Morning Futures바카라 게임 웹사이트 program, Witkoff said he and Waltz will be 바카라 게임 웹사이트having meetings at the direction of the president,바카라 게임 웹사이트 and hope to make 바카라 게임 웹사이트some really good progress with regard to Russia-Ukraine.바카라 게임 웹사이트
In his TV interview, Witkoff didn바카라 게임 웹사이트t directly respond to a question about whether Ukraine would have to give up a 바카라 게임 웹사이트significant portion바카라 게임 웹사이트 of its territory as part of any negotiated settlement.
바카라 게임 웹사이트Those are details, and I바카라 게임 웹사이트m not dismissive of the details, they바카라 게임 웹사이트re important. But I think the beginning here is trust-building. It바카라 게임 웹사이트s getting everybody to understand that this war does not belong continuing, that it should end. That바카라 게임 웹사이트s what the president has directed us to do,바카라 게임 웹사이트 he said.