Calas: Russia considers negotiations with the US in Saudi Arabia

According to RCO News Agency, EU foreign policy chief Kaya Kalas said Russia had celebrated the important meeting as the victory of the US -Russian diplomatic delegations in Saudi Arabia on Ukrainian peace talks.

Yesterday, Russian diplomatic delegations attended by Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, President Yuri Oshakov, Russian Foreign Directorate Director Cerill Dimitrif, US Secretary of State Marko Rubio, Mike Waltz The National Security Adviser and Special Envoy Steve Witakaf Meeting for West Asian Affairs in Riyadh and providing a plan for Ukrainian peace and providing The preparations for the US and Russian presidents meeting.

The meeting was hosted by Saudi Foreign Minister Faisal bin Farhan and Saudi Arabia’s National Security Adviser Musa bin Mohammed al -Ali.

Fox News correspondent Jacques Heinrich said Moscow and Washington had presented a three -step program that included a ceasefire, election in Ukraine and the final peace deal. He added that Moscow and Washington consider the conditions to hold elections in Ukraine as one of the most important conditions for the successful peace process in Ukraine.

“At present, if you look at the pictures of Saudi Arabia, the Russians are victorious,” Rihanovast news agency reported that he said in an interview with the Euro Active news website. Their position is that “everyone is coming to us now and offering us what we want.”

On the eve of the meeting, Ukrainian President Walodimir Zelnsky announced that Kiev was not invited and insisted that “any negotiations on Ukraine without Ukraine would be ineffective.”

Russian officials had earlier said the main goals of the negotiations included “the complete revival of Russian and US relations”, “readiness to negotiates about the Ukrainian crisis” and “the basis for a meeting between US President Putin and Donald Trump.” The sensitive talks were made possible after last week’s call between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin, US and Russian Presidents Vladimir Putin.

European capitals are worried about being out of Ukrainian peace talks, and on Monday, in Paris, they held an emergency meeting to coordinate the US move.

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