- Trump’s team will include Mike Waltz security advisor as well as Rubio.
- Trump’s officials did not reveal the time and place of peace conversations.
- Rubio called Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov on Saturday.
Washington: A high -level delegation of the administration of the president of the United States, Donald Trump, will begin crucial discussions in Saudi Arabia with Russian and Ukrainian officials, with the aim of negotiating the end of the current conflict in Ukraine, they said on Saturday American officials.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio, the White House National Security Advisor, Mike Waltz, and Trump’s Middle East negotiator, Steve Witkoff, will travel to Saudi Arabia for discussions, confirmed the officials.
The measure occurs a few days after Trump announced that he had spoken with Russian President Vladimir Putin for the first time since he returned to office, and that they had agreed to initiate conversations about a high fire in Ukraine.
The officials did not provide more details about when the meetings would be held or when the delegation would travel.
However, Rubio was already scheduled to visit Saudi Arabia as part of his first tour of the Middle East, which began on Saturday when he arrived in Israel, an AFP journalist reported.
Earlier on Saturday, Rubio made a phone call with his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov, during which “President Trump reaffirmed to find an end to the conflict in Ukraine,” said the State Department.
The former real estate developer Witkoff played an important role in an agreement to exchange prisoners earlier this week, which raided the way for the call between Trump and Putin.
Witkoff even traveled to Moscow to bring home to the detainee Marc Fogel.
In a publication on the social networks that announced the call with Putin earlier this week, Trump declared that he had commissioned Rubio, Waltz, Witkoff and the head of the CIA John Ratcliffe immediately start working immediately in an agreement with Russia for Russia for End the Ukraine War.
kyiv and his European allies, however, were surprised by the sudden Trump movement to begin negotiations with Russia.
Both fear being excluded from discussions about the future of Ukraine after the greatest invasion of land in Europe since World War II.
