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The Russian president, Vladimir Putin, has sent a group of senior officials to Saudi Arabia for meetings with the United States on a possible peace agreement for Ukraine, the Kremlin announced Monday.
The officials, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, and Putin’s Foreign Affairs Advisor Yuri Ushakov, will meet with American counterparts on Tuesday. The groups plan to discuss a restoration of diplomatic ties between Washington and Moscow, as well as a Ukrainian peace agreement and a possible meeting between President Donald Trump and Putin.
The Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, will direct the United States delegation, accompanied by Trump Steve Witkoff and national security advisor Mike Waltz, confirmed the State Department on Monday.
The meeting comes a few days after Trump revealed that he had spoken with Putin in a phone call last week. Trump said he and Putin “agreed that our respective teams begin negotiations immediately.”
Trump says that Russia “immediately” starts negotiations to end the war in Ukraine
President Donald Trump (Center), Ukrainian President Volodomyr Zelenskyy (left) and Russian President Vladimir Putin (right). (Alessandro Bremec/Nurphoto through Getty Images | Collaborator/Getty Images | Scott Olson/Getty Images)
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy He has fulfilled the effort with skepticism, urump to not trust Putin in a separate call last week.
“I said that (Putin) is a liar,” Zelenskyy said of his phone call to Trump. “And he said: ‘I think my feeling is that he is ready for these negotiations.’ And I said: ‘No, he is a liar.
However, Zelenskyy said he thinks Putin is a “little scared” by Trump.
Russia Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov will lead the Russian delegation meeting with Secretary of State Frames Rubio in Saudi Arabia this week. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)
Trump’s representatives have refused to offer details about negotiations, as if the United States would support an agreement in which Ukraine is forced to renounce a considerable amount of their territory before the war.
“Those are details, and not dismissal of the details, are important. But I think the beginning here is the construction of trust. It is making everyone understand that this war does not continue, that it should end. That is what the president has Aimed at doing, “Witkoff told Fox News on Sunday.
Meanwhile, the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Kier Starmer, confirmed that he is willing to put British troops on the field in Ukraine to guarantee their safety as part of a peace agreement.
“I don’t say that lightly,” he wrote on the Daily Telegraph. “I feel very deeply the responsibility that comes with the potentially that the British military and women are harmed.”
“But any role in helping to guarantee the security of Ukraine is helping to guarantee the security of our continent and the security of this country,” he added.
The war has continued in Ukraine in recent days despite a phone call between Trump and Putin discussing a possible peace agreement. (Anatolii Stepanov / AFP, Anatoli Stepanov / AFP through Getty Images)
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Zelenskyy added in his interview that he will not accept any negotiation that the US and Russia.
“I will never accept any decision between the United States and Russia on Ukraine. Never … The war in Ukraine is against us, and they are our human losses. And we are grateful for all the support, the unity between the United States, in the United States . Putin without us,“Said.
