Foreign Secretary of the United States Marco Rubio The US Russian Toxi officials say that the embassy staff agreed to restore and create a high -level team to negotiate peace. Ukraine peace And promote economic cooperation.
Rubio said that the steps taken over the past several years have reduced the capacity of the two countries to run diplomatic missions.
“We will need dynamic diplomatic missions that are generally eligible to work so that they can be able to continue,” he said.
This comes when top diplomats from Russia and the United States met in Saudi Arabia on Tuesday to improve relations and discuss the end of the war in Ukraine.
There was no Ukrainian official at the meeting, which came when a disturbing country was slowly losing against several Russian soldiers in a grinding war, which began almost three years ago. Ukrainian President Wolodmeer Zelannsky said that if Kiev does not take part, his country will not accept any result of this week's talks. European allies have also expressed concerns that they are being removed.
Beyond Ukraine, this meeting – Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and other senior officials attended – it was expected that they would focus on melting relations between the two countries, whose relations in decades were their lower levels. Have come
The purpose was to pave the way for a meeting between Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin. After the negotiations were engulfed, Putin's Foreign Affairs Advisor Yuri Ishakov told Russia's Channel One that no date has been finalized for the summit, but it is unlikely to be next week.
The concerns of the allies that they are being ignored
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters Monday that the talks mainly “restore the entire limit of US Russian relations, as well as prepare a possible dialogue on Ukraine's settlement and arrange a meeting of both presidents.” Will also focus. ” US State Department spokesman Timi Bruce has said that the purpose of the meeting was to determine how serious the Russian peace is and what detailed talks can be initiated.
After the meeting, Ishakov's remarks suggested that both sides made little progress. Russia and the United States agreed to “keep each other's interests” and advance their relations. He added that it is “difficult to say” that the positions of the two countries are approaching, but it is being talked about.
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In the wake of Moscow's 2022 attack, the United States, with European countries, imposed a raft of sanctions on Russia, and the allies have repeatedly increased its measures to damage its economy.
Recent US diplomatic bullets about the war have sent Ukraine and key allies to ensure a seat on the table between the concerns that Washington and Moscow may move forward with the deal that is not their Will be
In a Tuesday talks, the absence of Kiev has ranked many Ukrainian residents, and France on Monday convened an emergency meeting of EU countries and Britain to discuss the war.
Bruce has said that although Ukraine will not be at the table on Tuesday, the country will be involved in any real peace talks. Participating in Kiev's talks was a fundamental task of US policy under Trump's predecessor, Biden, whose administration also led international efforts to isolate Russia during the war.
White House officials have also withdrawn against the idea that Europe has been separated from the conversation, saying that administration officials have spoken to several leaders.
On Tuesday, French President Emmanuel Macron said he spoke to Trump and Zilnski after a meeting in Paris.
“We look for a strong and lasting peace in Ukraine,” Macron wrote on the social media platform X. ” “He vowed to work with all Europeans, Americans and Ukraine people.”
Peskov said on Tuesday that Putin has repeatedly expressed preparations for peace talks, saying that a sustainable settlement of the conflict in Ukraine would be impossible in Europe without “comprehensive security issues”.
The meeting at the Dehia Mahal in the capital of the Saudi capital of Saudi Arabia also highlighted the efforts of De Facto Leader Wali Ehud Prince Mohammed bin Salman to become a major diplomatic player, which was severely severe by the Washington Post journalist Jamalar Khasgagi's assassination 2018. The fame burned because of the stains.
Saudi State Media described these talks as the prince's direction. Like the neighboring United Arab Emirates, the prince has maintained close ties with Russia during the OPEC+ oil cartel and diplomacy during his war against Ukraine.
Saudi Arabia has also helped prisoner talks and hosted Zilnski for an Arab League summit in 2023. Zelinski said he would travel to the kingdom this weekend.
Rubio was accompanied by US National Security Advisor Mike Walts and Special Envoy Steve Watkov, while Lavrov was sitting with Kremlin's Foreign Affairs Advisor Yuri Ishakov. Saudi Foreign Minister Faisal Bin Farhan and National Security Advisor Masad Albin joined Rubio, Lavrov and others to start the meeting, but it was expected that they would go early in the talks.
Prior to the talks, Russia's sovereignty, head of the Sovereign Command Fund, Kerala Dmitrif, who said that the Kremlin said that he might be involved, emphasized the importance of the meeting.
“The good relations of the United States are very important to the whole world. The Associate told the Press, only Russia and the United States can resolve many world problems, resolve global conflicts and provide solutions.
Moscow February 24, 2022, after the attack, the meeting identified the wider links between the two countries. Lavrov and the then US Secretary of State Antony Blankin had a brief conversation about the G20 meeting in India almost two years ago, and in the fall of 2022, US and Russian Spiesters in Turkey between Washington's concerns Meeting Nuclear weapons among the failures of the battlefield.
Meanwhile, according to Kiev's army, Russia continued to trap Ukraine with drones. The Ukrainian Air Force said that Russian troops started a 176 drone barrage in Ukraine overnight, most of which were destroyed or disabled by gyming.
According to the regional administration, a Russian drone attacked a residential building in Dolinska in the Kerohrad area, injuring a mother and two of her children and evacuating 38 apartments. According to local officials, four more residential buildings were damaged by a drone debris in the Ukraine Cherry region.