US Secretary of State Marco Rubio says that US -Russia’s officials have agreed to restore the embassy employees and establish a high -level team to negotiate peace in peace Ukraine and enhance economic cooperation.
Rubio said that the procedures over the past few years have reduced the capabilities of diplomatic tasks in both countries to work.
He said: “We will need vibrant diplomatic tasks capable of working normally so that we can continue these channels.”
This comes as the best diplomats from Russia and the United States on Tuesday in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia to discuss improving relations and negotiating as a war in Ukraine – talks that reflect a major and rapid change in US foreign policy during the era of US President Donald Trump.
There were no Ukrainian officials at the meeting, which came as the besieged country was slowly losing but losing more than more than a number of Russian forces in a ground war that began nearly three years ago. Ukraine President Voludmir Zelinski said his country will not accept any outcome of this week if Kiev did not participate. The European allies also expressed their concerns about their marginalization.
Besides Ukraine, it was expected that the meeting – which was attended by Rubio, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and other senior officials – was expected to focus on the relations between the two countries, whose relations decreased to its lowest level in decades.
He was also supposed to pave the way for a meeting between Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin. After the talks concluded, he told Putin’s foreign affairs advisor, Yuri Ushakov, the first Russian channel that no date has yet been set for that summit, but it is unlikely to be “unlikely” next week.
Fears of allies who are marginalized
The Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters on Monday that the talks will focus primarily on “restoring a full set of relations between the United States and Russian, as well as preparing possible talks on Ukrainian settlement and organizing a meeting of presidents.” US State Department spokeswoman Tami Bruce said the meeting was aiming to determine the seriousness of the Russians over the desire for peace and whether detailed negotiations could be started.
After the meeting, Oshkov’s comments suggested that the two sides made great progress. Russia and the United States have agreed to “take the interests of each other into consideration” and progress in their relations. He added that it was “difficult to say” that the sites of the two countries “were approaching more, but there was a talk about that.”
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In the wake of Moscow’s invasion of 2022, the United States, along with European countries, imposed a set of sanctions on Russia and allies and has repeatedly expanded to damage its economy.
The recent American diplomatic raid in the war has sent Ukraine and major allies stood to ensure a seat on the table amid fears that Washington and Moscow could move forward in a deal that will not be favorable to them.
Kiev’s absence in Tuesday’s talks arranged several Ukrainians, and France called on an emergency meeting of the European Union and UK countries on Monday to discuss the war.
Bruce said that although Ukraine will not be on the table on Tuesday, any actual peace negotiations will include the country. KYIV’s participation in such talks was a US policy base during the era of Trump’s ancestor, Joe Biden, whose administration also led international efforts to isolate Russia to the war.
It also pushed White House officials against the idea that Europe has been left out of the conversation, noting that administration officials spoke to many leaders.
French President Emmanuel Macron said on Tuesday that he had spoken on the phone to Trump and Zelinski after the meeting he contacted in Paris.
“We seek a strong and permanent peace in Ukraine,” Macron wrote on the social media platform X. “to achieve this, Russia must end its aggression, and this must be accompanied by a strong security guarantee and credible for the Ukrainians.” He pledged to “work on this alongside all Europeans, Americans and Ukrainians.”
Peskov said on Tuesday that Putin expressed his willingness to peace talks, and he noticed that a permanent settlement of the conflict in Ukraine would be impossible without “comprehensive consideration of security issues” in Europe.
The meeting at the Derh Palace in the Saudi capital of his leadership also sheds light on the efforts of the actual leader, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, to be a major diplomatic player, which led to a strong reputation in the killing of the Washington Post 2018 journalist Jamal Khashogji.
The Saudi government media described the talks as taking place towards the prince. Like the neighboring United Arab Emirates, the Emir maintained close relations with Russia throughout its war on Ukraine, through OPEC+ Cartel and a diplomat as well.
The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has also helped the prisoners’ negotiations and hosted Zelinski for the Arab League summit in 2023. Zelinski said he would travel to the Kingdom later this week.
Rubio, US National Security Adviser Mike Waltz and Steve Witkev, while Lavrov sat next to the Kremlin Foreign Affairs advisor, Yuri Oshkov. Saudi Foreign Minister Faisal bin Farhan and National Security Adviser Musa Al Alban joined Rubio, Lavrov and others to start the meeting, but they were expected to leave early in the talks.
Before the talks, Kiril Dimitrif, head of the sovereign wealth fund in Russia, who said the Kremlin, stressed that he may join the importance of the meeting.
“The good US relations in Russia are very important to the entire world. Dmitryv, who said he and his team would focus on economic issues in the talks, told the Associated Press newspaper:
The meeting represents the most comprehensive communications between the two countries since the Moscow invaded on February 24, 2022. Lavrov and the US Secretary of State Anthony Blinka spoke shortly on the sidelines of the G20 meeting in India nearly two years ago, and in the fall of 2022, the United States and the Russians met in Turkey amid Washington’s concerns that Moscow can be resorted to nuclear weapons amid the setbacks of the battlefield.
Meanwhile, Russia continued to hit Ukraine with drones, according to Kiev’s army. The Ukrainian Air Force said that the Russian forces fired a barrage of 176 drones in Ukraine overnight, most of which were destroyed or disrupted through jamming.
A Russian drone collided with a residential building in Dolinska in the Kirovorad area, which resulted in the injury of the mother and her two children and paid 38 apartments, according to the regional administration. Four other residential buildings were damaged due to the drone wreckage in the Cherkasi region of Ukraine, according to local officials.
