Officials from the United States and Russia in Saudi Arabia will meet in the coming days to push discussions forward on ending the war in Ukraine, according to multiple reports.
It is expected that both National Security Adviser Mike Waltz, Foreign Minister Marco Rubio and Middle East Steve Whitkov, will travel to the Middle East to meet with senior Russian officials whose name was not revealed next week, according to Reuters.
Ukrainian President Zelensky said that his besieged nation was not invited to the negotiating table, according to the Guardian reports.
European powers are also excluded from conversations and Reuters reports.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov spoke on Saturday before the meetings – which will set the negotiation schedule on Ukraine and more, according to reports.
President Trump's private envoy, Keith Keel, had some harsh words of European leaders at the Munich Security Conference on Saturday.
For my European friends, I would like to say: “Entering the discussion, not through the complaint that may be, yes or no, on the table, but by coming up with concrete proposals, ideas and intensification of spending.” Leaders who will sit on the margin of the upcoming negotiations.
JD Vance Vice President held his first face meeting with Zelensky during his ongoing trip to Europe.
VEP described the conversation as “fruitful” and repeated the Trump administration's commitment to a “permanent and lasting peace” in Europe.
Earlier this week, Trump and Defense Minister Beit Higseth said it is unlikely that Ukraine will return to its borders before 2014 with Russia, and it is also possible that it will not become a NATO member-which was a point of disagreement in both local and international policy.
Last week, Donald Trump received a phone call to Russian President Vladimir Putin, which led to a joint player from the leaders to visit each other.
The last president to sit to visit Russia was Barack Obama in 2013, when he attended the summit at the time the G-20.
Obama visited Russia twice, while his predecessor George Bush visited seven times.
