Washington – The United States officially brought Russia out of the cold Tuesday with high -ranking conversations that aimed to end Moscow's war with Ukraine and restore diplomatic and economic bonds.
A representative of Russian President Vladimir Putin in Riad, Saudi -Arabia, which was adopted by Foreign Minister Marco Rubio under the direction of Trump Administration, has been in the first such meeting since Russia, an invasion of Ukraine, which has been the most deadliest conflict in Europe since then The Second World War called.
Neither Ukraine nor a European actor were invited to the conversations, an omission that reversed the US policy was that Kyiv insisted that Kyiv was admitted to all negotiations to end the devastating war three years ago. So far, NATO and the United States have been together in Ukraine.
“This is the beginning of a long process,” Rubio told reporters after the meeting.
The two sides agreed that a “consultation mechanism to respond to irritants to our bilateral relationship,” said the Foreign Ministry. It quoted “historical economic and investment opportunities” that it claimed to be on the horizon.
They also agreed to “appoint high -ranking teams in order to work in a way as soon as possible on a way to end the conflict in Ukraine that is permanently, sustainable and acceptable for all sides.”
President Trump, for whom foreign policy is largely transactional, said that he “only wants the killing at all costs”. This has led to criticism that the appeasement of Russia will lead to an increasingly encouraged Putin at the expense of NATO and some of the European neighbors in Russia who feel threatened by their former Soviet parent.
The meeting on Tuesday was an episode for Trump's phone call with Putin last week. Trump mainly assigned Putin's main requirements: Ukraine has to give up the area illegally confiscated by Russia and give up its goal of joining NATO.
Trump indicated that a summit between him and Putin, who was charged by the International Criminal Court for atrocities in Ukraine, could take place in the near future.
Moscow has already started to get a round of victory.
“I have reason to assume that the American team understood our position better, which we have again presented in detail, with specific examples based on Putin's repeated speeches” meeting with Rubio.
Rubio was accompanied by two members of Trump's inner circle, the Special envoy in the Middle East and the real estate developer Steve Witkoff and the national security consultant Mike Waltz.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky had planned a separate trip to Saudi Arabia for later this week, but canceled it on Tuesday.
Russia tries to confiscate the Ukrainian country and to displace the government. Tens of thousands of Ukrainian and Russians were killed. Most Russians who died were soldiers; A large part of the Ukrainian victims were civilians.