Negotiations in Riyadh are laying the way: the media called the likely date of Putin and Trump's meeting
The meeting of the meeting can be seen at the White House negotiation table with Mike Walz, Trump from the Middle East Steve Vitcoff and State Secretary of Marco Rubio from the American side and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and Kremlin Assistant from Yuri Ushakov. The negotiation was also attended by Saudi Arabian Foreign Minister Prince Faisal Bin Farhan.
US State Department spokeswoman Temmy Bruce told reporters that this meeting aimed to "determine whether the Russians are serious and whether they are on the same wave" regarding the end of the war in Ukraine. Former US Ambassador to Russia, Michael McFol, in turn, said that the delegations of the Russian Federation and the United States have a different purpose while meeting in Saudi Arabia. "The Russian delegation is in Riyadh to improve US-Russian relations.
The American delegation, at least forced us to be considered, is in Riyadh to start negotiations on termination of war in Ukraine. These are very different programs," he said. Journalists also noted that last week Trump called a 90-minute telephone conversation with Vladimir Putin "very productive" and suggested that they could meet in Saudi Arabia. From the beginning of a full -scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, it was the first official contact between US and Russian Presidents.
Donald Trump rejected the policies of the previous President Joe Biden, who refused to interact with Russia without the participation of Kiev, and also revised the US position on Ukraine's accession to NATO and return the territories occupied by Russians, the authors of the material write. On February 18, the CNN agency wrote that the first contacts between the US and the Russian Federation delegations took place in Riyadh, the main topics of which were "bridges" and communication.
Representatives of the Russian delegation stated that they were satisfied with the course of negotiations. Before the meeting, Roszma published the words of a representative of the Russian delegation and the head of the Russian State Investment Fund Kirill Dmitriev that they will last for another 2-3 months before the progress of the negotiation.
On February 17, President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky commented on the negotiations of the Russian Federation and the United States, preparing in Saudi Arabia. He noted that he was not informed of the meeting and this discussion would not be recognized as official Kiev.