Washington – The United States officially brought Russia from cold Tuesday with high -level talks aimed at ending the Moscow war with Ukraine and reformulating diplomatic and economic relations that have been freezing for a long time.
The Trump administration team, led by Foreign Minister Marco Rubio, sat for a period of four hours with senior representatives of Russian President Vladimir Putin in his Retara, Saudi Arabia, in the first such meeting since Russia has deepened an invasion of Ukraine, who launched the most conflict in Europe since then since then Since then, World War II.
Ukraine nor any European actor was invited to the talks, which is an omission of the unlike American policy that has long insisted on the inclusion of Kiev in any negotiations to end the devastating war, which started three years ago. So far, NATO and the United States unite in support of Ukraine.
“This is the beginning of a long operation,” Rubio told reporters after the meeting.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs said that the two sides agreed to “the mechanism of consultation to address the irritating to our bilateral relationship.” She cited “historical economic and investment opportunities” that she claimed to lie on the horizon.
They also agreed to appoint “high -level teams to start working on a road to end the conflict in Ukraine as soon as possible in a permanent, sustainable and acceptable way for all parties.”
President Trump, who considers foreign policy largely, said that he “just wants to stop killing” at any cost. This has led to criticism that Russia’s appeasement will lead to Putin more encouraging at the expense of NATO and some European neighbors in Russia, who are threatened by their former Soviet father.
Tuesday’s meeting was a follow -up to Trump’s phone conversation with Putin last week. Trump has been mainly waived for Putin’s main demands: Ukraine will have to abandon the lands that Russia has seized illegally, and it must abandon its goal of joining NATO.
Trump hinted that the summit between him and Putin, which was accused by the International Criminal Court of atrocities in Ukraine, could take place in the near future.
Moscow has already started taking the bosom of victory.
“I have a reason for the belief that the American side began to better understand our position, which he defined again in detail, using specific examples, based on President Putin’s repeated speeches,” said Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov on Tuesday. A meeting with Rubio.
Rubio was accompanied by two members of the Trump inner circle, the Middle East special envoy, and the developer of real estate Steve Witkeov and National Security Adviser Mike Walz.
Ukrainian President Folodimir Zelinski had scored a separate trip to Saudi Arabia later this week, but he canceled on Tuesday.
Russia seeks to seize Ukrainian lands and topple the government. Tens of thousands of Ukrainian and Russians were killed. Most of the Russians who died were soldiers; A large part of the Ukrainian losses were civilians.