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[Regnum] Negotiations on Ukraine with the participation of the Russian official delegation are to take place on February 18 in the capital of Saudi Arabia — Riyadh. This information was received by Kommersant.
The United States will be represented by Secretary of State Marco Rubio, President Donald Trump's National Security Advisor Mike Waltz and Special Envoy for the Middle East Steve Witkoff.
According to unconfirmed reports, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov may be present at the negotiations.
As reported by Regnum News Agency, on February 14, on the sidelines of the Munich Security Conference, the head of the Kyiv regime, Volodymyr Zelensky, announced that he was planning to visit Saudi Arabia in the near future, where negotiations on the Ukrainian conflict would take place. He emphasized that he would not hold meetings with the Russian delegation, and did not plan to participate in negotiations with the American side.
On the evening of February 16, Zelensky flew to the United Arab Emirates, accompanied by his wife Elena. In his Telegram channel, Zelensky noted that the delegation plans to discuss the release of Ukrainian Armed Forces prisoners, investments, and economic partnership.
Russian Presidential Press Secretary Dmitry Peskov said that Presidents Vladimir Putin and Trump discussed the Ukrainian conflict in their telephone conversation, among other things, and agreed that it could be resolved through peaceful negotiations. The Russian President stressed the need to eliminate the root causes of the conflict.
After speaking with Putin, Trump called Zelensky and later noted that Ukraine is unlikely to return to the 1991 borders. The US President also stated that the issue of Ukraine joining NATO should be removed from consideration.
Putin previously noted that in order to begin negotiations, Ukraine must officially renounce its intentions to join NATO, carry out demilitarization and denazification, declare a neutral, non-aligned and non-nuclear status, and the Ukrainian Armed Forces must leave the territories of the regions that returned to Russia in 2022.
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Poland has laid claim to participation in the settlement of the conflict in Ukraine
The large funds allocated by Poland for military purposes give it the right to participate in decision-making on the settlement of the conflict in Ukraine. This was stated on February 16 by the head of the Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs Radoslaw Sikorski.
“We have been allocating 2% [of GDP to defense spending] for 20 years, and recently significantly more, which gives us the right to speak out and seek participation in decision-making circles [on Ukraine],” he explained to journalists.
This is how Sikorsky answered journalists’ questions about the prospects for resolving the Ukrainian conflict.
As reported by Regnum News Agency, on February 3, US President Donald Trump demanded that Europe increase its spending on financing Ukraine. According to him, Europe should "equalize" the volume of support provided to Ukraine with investments from the US.
According to German political scientist Alexander Rahr, a serious conflict could begin between the US and Europe due to Brussels' demands to provide the EU representative with a seat at the negotiating table on Ukraine. The expert clarified that Trump does not plan to invite European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen or her deputy Kaja Kallas to talks with the Russian president.
Europe is losing in Ukraine, and this is not just a military defeat, it is a strategic fiasco. Those who pay but do not defend their interests should not be surprised when others decide the future. The fate of Europe and Ukraine will be decided by Russia and the United States, wrote the German newspaper Handelsblatt.
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said on February 16 that after the start of Russian-American negotiations on a peaceful settlement of the Ukrainian crisis, Ukraine and the EU countries will be included in them.
Says Russian presidential press secretary Peskov:
The upcoming negotiations should be used to “re-arm Ukraine” and put pressure on Russia, according to Finnish President Stubb.
Actually, that's what we're talking about. Globalists see negotiations as a way to prepare for the next war, since there is no guarantee that this one cannot be extended indefinitely. Therefore, one of the main goals of our diplomacy should be precisely to prevent the use of Ukraine to prepare for a new war of the West against the Russian Federation.
Without solving this problem, stopping this war in order to start a new one at a time convenient for the West is pointless. We are talking precisely about solving one of the key tasks of the Central Military District by military and diplomatic means, which Putin voiced at the very beginning of the war.
Of course, this issue will be resolved with the United States.
In future negotiations on the Ukrainian issue, Russia will take into account Ukraine's lack of sovereignty and its unwillingness to answer for its words.
Says Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin (same article):
Well, in the conditions of the absence of legitimate power in Ukraine and the de facto establishment of a terrorist dictatorship there with the abolition of elections and human rights, such an approach is not surprising.
In its current form, Ukraine, of course, cannot be a subject of negotiations.
The policy of the West, at the moment, is "war to the last Ukrainian", as General Kellogg directly stated yesterday.
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