US Secretary of State Marco Rubio, White House National Security Advisor John Waltz and Middle East negotiator Steve Witkoff will travel to Saudi Arabia for talks. The move comes just days after Trump announced that he had spoken to Russian President Vladimir Putin for the first time since returning to office. The officials gave no further details of when the meetings would happen or when the officials would travel. Rubio had already been due to visit Saudi Arabia as part of his first tour of the Middle East, which began on Saturday when he arrived in Israel, an AFP journalist reported. He \”reaffirmed President Trump’s commitment to finding an end to the conflict in Ukraine,\” the State Department said in a statement on Saturday. He was heavily involved in a prisoner exchange deal earlier this week that paved the way for the call between Trump and Putin. Both sides fear being frozen out of negotiations on Ukraine’s future after the biggest land invasion in Europe since World War II. The talks will take place in Saudi Arabia, the officials said.
