U.S. officials are planning to use Tuesday’s meeting with a Ukrainian delegation in Saudi Arabia in part to determine whether Ukraine is willing to make material concessions to Russia to end the war. The meeting between President Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy devolved into an argument last month. Trump has expressed frustration with Ukraine in recent weeks, saying the eastern European nation is running out of manpower and resources, and that it needs to quickly come to the table with Russia. Russian troops have been making slow but steady progress in eastern Ukraine, while thousands of Ukrainian troops who stormed into Russia’s Kursk region last summer are nearly surrounded. Hanging over Jeddah is the fate of a minerals deal between the U.S and Ukraine, which both sides have expressed a renewed willingness to sign, but no signing has yet occurred. \”We want to see if the Ukrainians are interested not just in peace, but in a realistic peace,\” said one of the officials. \”If they are only interested in 2014 or 2022 borders, that tells you something,\” said the other official.