On February 18, negotiations between Russia and the USA on the end of the Russian Federation against Ukraine should begin in the capital of Saudi Arabia Er-Riyada. The Ukrainian delegation will not take part in them. The compositions of delegations are expected to be symmetrical: the heads of foreign policy departments (Marco Rubio and Sergey Lavrov), foreign policy advisers to the presidents (Michael Walz and Yuri Ushakov), the head of foreign intelligence (John Retcliffe and Sergey Naryshkin). . They should precede the meeting of US President Donald Trump with the Russian dictator. Sergey Lavrov has already managed to say that Moscow was not considering the possibility of any territorial concessions as part of negotiations-it is first necessary to resolve issues related to the Russian language in Ukraine and the prohibition of the Moscow Patriarchate. Intermediaries to provide a site for negotiations between the USA and the Russian Federation proposed, in particular, countries such as China and the United Arab Emirates (UAE). . Putin can freely visit Saudi Arabia, not risking being arrested. Saudi Arabia also acts as an intermediary in the exchange of prisoners between Russia and Ukraine, which helped her gain the trust of both parties. During the recent exchange of prisoners, also organized through the mediation of Riyadh, Russia freed the American teacher Mark Fogel. According to the special representative of the United States in the Middle East, Steve Whitkoff, the key role in the liberation of Vogel, who was in prison for more than three years, was played by the hereditary prince of Saudi Arabia Muhammad Bin Salman. Saudi Arabia has repeatedly accepted both Zelensky and Putin, and also advocated the conclusion of a sustainable peace agreement between countries. In the summer of 2023, Riyadh organized an international meeting in Gidda with the participation of representatives of several states. Zelensky will be near Vladimir Zelensky also intends to visit Saudi Arabia. Any contacts between Russia and Ukraine in Saudi Arabia, according to official figures, are not supposed. . Ukraine did not know anything about this.

Ukraine regards any negotiations about Ukraine without Ukraine as unsuccessful, and we cannot recognize any agreements about us without us, ”said Vladimir Zelensky. The Ukrainian delegation led by Minister of Economics Yulia Sviridenko, who is preparing the visit of Zelensky, is already in Riyadh.. The visit of the President of Ukraine to Saudi Arabia was preparing a month ago. There will be bilateral relations in the focus of Zelensky’s attention in Riyans, in particular infrastructure and economic projects, as well as the joint work of the two countries aimed at food security.

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