Top US and Russian diplomats will meet in Saudi Arabia Tuesday for talks aimed at ending the Ukraine war. It will be the first meeting between senior representatives of both countries since Moscow invaded Ukraine in February 2022. US President Donald Trump is pushing for a swift resolution to the three-year conflict, though has not yet outlined a plan to bring the warring sides to the negotiating table. Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky said Kyiv \”did not know anything about\” the upcoming talks in Riyadh, according to Ukrainian news agencies.Moscow said ahead of the meeting that Trump and Vladimir Putin wanted to move on from \”abnormal relations\” between their countries during the Ukraine conflict and that it saw no place for Europeans to be at any negotiating table, it said. The two sides would also discuss \”possible negotiations on a Ukrainian resolution, and organising a meeting between the two presidents,\” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Monday. The prospects of any talks leading to an agreement to halt the Ukraine fighting are unclear.
