Russia hails Saudi peace talks as ‘not bad’ as they come to an end

The US and Russia met today in Saudi Arabia to discuss peace talks to end the war in Ukraine and a Kremlin official said the talks were “not bad.”

Yuri Ushakov, an advisor to Russia’s President Vladimir Putin said the talks were “not bad” however it is “hard to say” if both side interest will be met, he added, it was a “very serious discussion of all the issues we wanted to touch upon.”

“We have agreed to take account of each other’s interests and develop bilateral relations, since both Moscow and Washington are interested in this,” he added.

A US State Department spokesperson Tammy Bruce said the meeting in Saudi was “an important step forward,” but added: “One phone call followed by one meeting is not sufficient to establish enduring peace.”

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US negotiator Mike Waltz said that the US President Donald Trump wants to move very quickly on talks to come to a peace deal in Ukraine adding, “an endless war in Europe is not acceptable to Trump.”

The US delegation led by State of Secretary Marco Rubio said, “We’re going to need to have vibrant diplomatic missions that are able to function normally in order to be able to continue these conduits.”

He was over Europe not being in Saudi, he said “no one is being sidelined here,” adding, that “some very positive things for the United States, for Europe, for Ukraine, for the world” could happen, but “the conflict” must end.

“In order for a conflict to end, everyone in that conflict has to be okay with it, it has to be acceptable to them,” Rubio said.

“Today is the first step of a long and difficult journey, but an important one,” he added.

Russian negotiator Kirill Dmitriev told Reuters, “There’s a new logic where we need to talk and understand what we agree upon and if there are differences we need to understand what they are.”