KYIV was not invited to a dialogue between the United States and Russia to end the war on the BBC.
Keith Kellogg Ukraine’s special envoy to Keith Kellogg said KYIV would be involved in talks in Saudi Arabia on Monday. But the source said there would be no delegation.
European leaders have not been asked to participate in the discussion, and they will meet at the meeting instead because the French president is in a hurry to meet on Monday in Paris and the continent is trapped in negotiations.
A separate meeting follows the turbulent state that Washington suggests a sharp change in approach to the Ukrainian war.
The White House’s Steve Witkoff confirmed that he traveled to Saudi Arabia on Sunday evening and visited to end the conflict for the first face -to -face talks between the United States and Russia.
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio and National Security Advisor Mike Waltz also decided to meet Russian negotiators less than a week after calling with Russian leader VLADIMIR PUTIN. On Wednesday, the phone ended three years of freezing with direct contact between Moscow and Washington.
Zelensky repeatedly excluded peace negotiations without Ukraine, and on Sunday, our television network NBC said, “We will never accept the decision of Ukraine between the United States and Russia.”
Witkoff said that US officials were speaking separately from Ukrainian officials and said they were “part of the talks,” but they did not say that KYIV would attend Saudi Arabia.
Rubio, meanwhile, said that a meeting would not solve the war by stopping the Saudi Arabia dialogue, and that the official negotiations for arbitration between Ukraine, Russia, and third parties have not yet been established.
But he told CBS News that the next few days would decide whether Putin would be serious about the achievement of peace.
The European leader group, including Keir Starmer, NATO Secretary -General Mark Rutte, Germany’s OLAF Scholz, and the European Commission’s Ursula von der liyen, are in violation of this background. Meet in Paris.
According to a statement by CBS News, the US partner of the BBC, French President Emmanuel Macron will have an informal meeting in the afternoon of Ukraine and European security.
But Jean-Noël Barrot French Foreign Minister said that the summit should not be “excessively”.
Ukraine’s envoy Kellogg has previously dismissed concerns about Europe, which was not invited to Saudi Arabia, and insisted that the previous negotiations failed due to the participation of too many parties.
“This can be the same as the chalk on the board. It can be a bit angry, but it’s really honest.”
This meeting represents the acceleration of Trump’s efforts to achieve the fast end of the war.
The White House said the US president held a “long” phone call with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday, and then Trump then said that negotiations to prevent Ukraine’s “funny war” will begin immediately.
He also said that Ukraine’s joining NATO is not “practical” and cannot return to the border before the invasion in 2014.
Ukraine repeatedly demanded NATO membership and refused to delete it as part of a peace contract.
So did Trump’s position Crying by his defense minister It causes European warnings that the United States can yield to Russia before the peace contract is negotiated.
Pete Hegseth also said European countries should provide a “overwhelming” ratio of funding for Ukraine.
Like the vice president of JD VANCE, at the Munich Security Conference on Friday, Europe must say, “We must strengthen it in a big way to provide our own defense.” Criticism of European democracy.
Zelensky called on Saturday Creation of the European army, He insisted that the continent could no longer rely on Washington.
Meanwhile, the Ukrainian war continued on Sunday. Zelen Ski said that at least 100,000 people were left in Mykolaiv due to Russian attacks.
He said that in the city’s “important infrastructure,” the drone strike did not heat up.
Russia began full -fledged invasion of Ukraine on February 24, 2022, and in 2014, it has already seized some of the cream and eastern Dobas region.
