The Secretary of State of the United States, Marco Rubio, said that officials of the American-Russia talks have agreed to restore the Embassy staff and create a high-level team to negotiate Ukrainian peace and promote economic cooperation.
Rubio has said that actions in recent years have reduced the capacities of the diplomatic missions of the two countries to operate.
“We are going to need to have dynamic diplomatic missions that can operate normally in order to be able to continue these conduits,” he said.
This comes as the best diplomats in Russia and the United States met on Tuesday in Saudi Arabia to discuss the improvement of links and negotiations from the end of the war in Ukraine – discussions that reflect a major change And fast in American foreign policy under American President Donald Trump.
No Ukrainian official was present in Reunion, who came while the besieged country loses slowly but regularly against more Russian troops in a grinding war that started almost three years ago. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said his country will not accept any results of this week’s talks if kyiv did not participate. European allies also expressed their concerns away.
Beyond Ukraine, Reunion – to which Rubio, the Russian Foreign Minister, Sergey Lavrov and other senior officials, had to focus on the defrosting of relations between the two countries, whose links are linked, the links of which are. Fallen at their lowest level for decades.
He also had to pave the way for a meeting between Trump and Russian president Vladimir Putin. After the wrapped talks, Putin’s foreign advisor Yuri Ushakov told the Russian One Channel that no date had yet been set for this summit, but that he was “unlikely” next week .
The concerns of the allies, they are sidelined
Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov told journalists on Monday that talks would mainly be focused on “the restoration of the whole range of American-Russian relations, as well as the preparation of possible discussions on the Ukrainian regulations and the organization of a meeting of the two presidents ”. The spokesperson for the US State Department Tammy Bruce said that the meeting was aimed at determining how serious Russians are to want peace and start detailed negotiations.
After the meeting, Ushakov’s remarks suggested that the two parties have made little progress. Russia and the United States have agreed to “take into account the interests of the other” and to advance their relations. He added that it was “difficult to say” that the positions of the two countries “are getting closer, but was discussed.”
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In the wake of Moscow’s invasion in 2022, the United States, as well as the European nations, imposed a series of sanctions on Russia and the allies have repeatedly widened the measures to harm its economy.
The recent American diplomatic blitz on war sent allies to Ukraine and key allies to ensure a siege at the table among the concerns that Washington and Moscow could take the lead with an agreement that will not be favorable to them.
The absence of Kyiv during Tuesday talks has raised many Ukrainians, and France called on Monday an emergency meeting in the European Union and the United Kingdom to discuss the war.
Bruce said that even if Ukraine will not be at the table on Tuesday, real peace negotiations will include the country. kyiv’s participation in such discussions was a foundation of American policy under the predecessor of Trump, Joe Biden, whose administration also led international efforts to isolate Russia during the war.
White House officials have also rejected the idea that Europe was excluded from the conversation, noting that administration officials spoke to several leaders.
French President Emmanuel Macron said on Tuesday that he spoke by phone on Trump and Zelenskyy after the meeting he called in Paris.
“We are looking for a strong and lasting peace in Ukraine,” Macron wrote on the social media platform X. “To get there, Russia must end its assault, and this must be accompanied by solid security guarantees and Credible for Ukrainians, “he said and promised to” work on it with all Europeans, Americans and Ukrainians “.
Peskov said on Tuesday that Putin had repeatedly expressed preparation for peace talks and noted that a sustainable settlement of the conflict in Ukraine would be impossible without “a complete consideration of security problems” in Europe.
The meeting of the Palace of Direriyah in the Saudi capital of Riyadh also highlights the efforts of the de facto leader leader of the Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman to be a major diplomatic player, browning a reputation severely tarnished by the murder in 2018 of Washington journalist Post, Jamin Khashoggi.
The media of the Saudi state described the talks as performing in the direction of the prince. Like the neighboring United Arab Emirates, the prince maintained close relations with Russia throughout his war against Ukraine, both through the OPEC + oil cartel and also diplomatically.
Saudi Arabia has also helped prisoner negotiations and welcomed Zelenskyy for a summit of the Arab League in 2023. Zelenskyy said that he would go to the kingdom later this week.
Rubio was accompanied by US National Security Councilor Mike Waltz and Steve Witkoff Special Envoy, while Lavrov was sitting next to the Kremlin Foreign Affairs Advisor Yuri Ushakov. The Saudi Foreign Minister, Faisal Bin Farhan, and the national security advisor Musaed Al Alban joined Rubio, Lavrov and others for the start of the meeting, but had to leave at the start of the talks.
Before the talks, Kirill Dmitriev, the head of the sovereign fund of Russia that the Kremlin said could join, said the importance of the meeting.
“Good American-Russian relations are very important to the whole world. He can jointly only Russia and the United States to solve many global problems, solve world conflicts and offer solutions, “said the Associated Press, Dmitriev, who said that he and his team would focus on economic issues during talks.
The meeting marked the most extensive contact between the two countries since the February 24, 2022 invasion of Moscow. Lavrov and the Secretary of State of the United States, Antony Blinken, spoke briefly on the sidelines of a G-20 meeting in India almost two years ago, and in the fall of 2022, American species and Russians gathered in Turkey in the midst of Washington’s concerns that Moscow could resort to use the use of using the use of using the use of recourse to recourse to recourse to The use of using the use of using recourse to resort to resorting to the use of staying to stay to stay to be reverted nuclear weapons in the midst of the setbacks of the battlefield.
Meanwhile, Russia continued to beat Ukraine with drones, according to kyiv’s army. The Ukrainian Air Force said that the Russian troops had launched a 176 drones dam in Ukraine overnight, most of which were destroyed or disabled by the scrambling.
A Russian drone struck a residential building in Dorynska in the Kiroohrad region, injuring a mother and her two children and causing an evacuation of 38 apartments, the regional administration reported. According to local officials.
