Senior US and Russian officials will meet in Riyadh on Tuesday for talks that the Kremlin has hailed as a step to restoring full bilateral relations and ending the Ukraine war but which Kyiv says it will not recognise.
As US secretary of state Marco Rubio arrived in the Saudi capital ahead of meeting the Russian delegation, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Kyiv “will not take part” in the talks and “did not know anything about it”.
Speaking from the United Arab Emirates, Zelenskyy added: “Ukraine regards any negotiations on Ukraine without Ukraine as ones that have no result, and we cannot recognise . . . any agreements about us without us.”