Ukraine will not participate in the talks between the aggressor country russia and the United States in Saudi Arabia, which will take place on Tuesday, February 18.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy stated this via video link from the United Arab Emirates, Politico writes on Monday, February 18.
U.S. representatives told Politico at the Munich Security Conference this weekend that Washington has invited Ukraine to participate in the talks in Saudi Arabia, and that this statement has become news for Kyiv.
"Ukraine will not take part in the negotiations. Ukraine did not know they were planned. And the visit to the region was planned long before the U.S. decided to meet Russia there," Zelenskyy said, adding that any peace talks held without Kyiv at the negotiating table “will bring no result.”
The President of Ukraine stressed that his visits have nothing to do with those negotiations. Zelenskyy said that he would ask the King of Saudi Arabia what he knew about the topics of the negotiations. According to him, talks about the need to resume negotiations have been going on for quite some time, the President of Ukraine noted.
As the Ukrainian News agency earlier reported, on February 17, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said that Ukraine sees China's interest in ending the war for the first time.
On February 17, Zelenskyy said that Ukraine and its partners have made great progress in the issue of deploying a foreign military contingent in the country.
Recall that on February 16, the BBC stated that Ukrainian representatives allegedly did not receive an invitation to a meeting of high-ranking officials from the United States of America and the aggressor country russia in Saudi Arabia.
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