“It makes no difference if the military shows up under a different flag. Naturally, it is very inappropriate,” he stated.
The US and Russia announced that they had decided to send teams to begin war-ending negotiations.
United States Secretary of State Marco Rubio declared after the meeting that “today is the first step of a long and difficult journey, but an important one.”
According to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, it was a “surprise” that Ukraine was not invited to the negotiations.
The encounter in Riyadh was the first reported in-person contact between Russian and American representatives since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
US National Security Advisor and Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff also attended the Saudi Arabian conference.
