Kiev will treat any negotiations without its involvement as βnull and void,β the Ukrainian leader has said
Kiev will not recognize any agreements that could be reached between Russia and the US during talks in Saudi Arabia, Ukrainian leader Vladimir Zelensky told journalists on Monday. The Ukrainian government will only acknowledge negotiations that involve Kievβs representatives, he added.
Russia and the US have begun preparations for a meeting between presidents Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump that is scheduled to take place in Saudi Arabia. On Monday, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov announced that Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and Yury Ushakov, Putinβs top foreign policy aide, would travel to Riyadh to meet a US delegation and lay the groundwork for a presidential meeting.
Itβs a big club but you arenβt invitedβ¦
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Zelensky warned Trump and Putin against negotiations without him:
"They can have their own relations, but talking about Ukraine without us is dangerous for everyone."
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