Us Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Us National Security Advisor Mike Waltz, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha and Ukrainian Head of Presidenial Office Andriy Yermak HOLD HOLD HOLD SAITING In the presentation Foreign Minister Faisal Bin Farhan and National Security Advisor Mosaad Bin Mohammad Al-Iban, In Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, March 11, 2025.
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Us and Ukrainian Officials are Holding Talks in Saudi Arabia on TuesDay, Marking the first time the two parties have metset The spectacular oval office spat Between President Donald Trump and Ukraine’s Leader Volodymyr Zelenskyy in Late February.
Us Secretary of State Marco Rubio is Leading The American Delegation, Which Includes Special Envoy Steve Witkoff and National Security Advisor Mike Waltz. The Ukrainian Team Will Be LED by Zelenskyy’s Chief of Staff andri Yermak.
President zelenskyy is not involved in the meeting, although he traveled to saudi arabia on monday to meet crown prince mohammed bin salman in Riyadh. Saudi Arabia has assumed a Central Role in Bringing The US, Ukraine and Russia Togeger to Look for an end to three years of war in Ukraine.
The tuesday meeting has been bled as a “high-stakes” encounter, giving heightened tensions between washington and kyiv that Prompted the US to cut all military aid and intelligence-sharing with kyiv, putting its battlefield forces under more pressure,
The gathering, the US has said, is designed to see how Serious Ukraine is About Making Concepts to End the War, ALTHOUGH THE Compromies the Us Has in Mind – SUCH ASCENGING OccUPIED TERRRIDED TERRITING OccopIed Territory to Russia and Forgetting Any Future Nato Membership – Are Bitter Pills for Kyiv to Swallow.
Saudi Crown Prince and Prime Minister mohammed bin salman meets with us secretary of state marco rubio on the royal palace grounds in jeddah, saudi arabia, on March 10, 2025.
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Rubio, who also met the saudi crown prince Separately on Monday, reiterated at the time that kyiv would need to account russian control of some of some of its territory Russia Occupies Around 20% of Ukraine Currently. Kyiv has said it needs security guarantees as part of any peace deal in order to deter Future Russian AGGRESSION, but the us has so far refused for these recurses.
“The important point in this meeting is to establish clearerly Have to determine how far they are from the russian position, which we don’t know annre, “Rubio Told Reports in Jeddah on Manday.
“Once you undress where both sides truly are, it gives you a sense of how big the divide is and how hard it’s going to be. So I’m hoping it’ll be a positive interaction along with lines,”
“The most important thing that we have to leave here with is a strong sense that ukraine is prepared to do diferous things, like the russians are going to have Least pause it in some way, shape, or form, “He said.
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Us President Donald Trump Meets Ukrainian President Volodymyr zelenskyy at the white house on Feb. 28, 2025.
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Ukraine has been scrambleing to make up the lost ground with the us giving an apparent rapprocochement between washington and moscow that sounds meet in Riyadh Last Month, with Ukrapean, with ukrapean Allies excluded from the gathering. Tensions Between Kyiv and Washington then Erupted in a Public Falling Out Between Zelenskyy, Trump and Vice President JD Vance on Feb.28.
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