Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said his country won’t take part in the talks this week, adding that they would 'yield no results.'
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia — Senior American and Russia n officials, including the countries’ top diplomats, will hold talks on improving their ties and negotiating an end to, officials said Monday, in what would be the most significant meeting between the sides since Moscow’s full-scale invasion of its neighbor nearly three years ago.The recent U.S.
Trump on Sunday told reporters that Zelenskyy “will be involved” but did not elaborate. The Ukrainian president said Monday his country had not been invited to the upcoming talks and won’t accept the outcome if Kyiv doesn’t take part.The U.S.-Russia talks would “yield no results,” given the absence of any Ukrainian officials, Zelenskyy said on a conference call with journalists from the United Arab Emirates.
Asked about expectations from the talks in Riyadh, he said that Trump and Putin in their call “agreed to leave behind that absolutely abnormal period in relations between our great powers when they effectively halted any contacts except for some technical and humanitarian issues.” Ushakov, Putin’s foreign affairs aide, said the Riyadh talks will focus on “the restoration of normal ties, the possible start of Ukraine talks and the prospects of contacts on the top level.”He said that Kirill Dmitriev, the head of the Russian Direct Investment Fund, could join the Russian delegation in Riyadh.
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