WASHINGTON – Senior US and Russian diplomats will meet in Riyahdh on Tuesday for preliminary talks on trying to end the Ukraine war and resetting their countries’ fractured relations, according to France 24 channel.
Both Russia and the United States have cast the meeting as the beginning of a potentially lengthy process.
“I don’t think that people should view this as something that is about details or moving forward in some kind of a negotiation,” US State Department spokesperson Tammy Bruce said.
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov are meeting in Saudi Arabia ahead of initial talks to end the Ukraine war, which will be held without Kyiv and its European supporters.
