This Tuesday, the Foreign Ministers of the United States and RussiaMarco Rubio and Sergei Lavrov, They meet in Riad, capital of Saudi Arabia, to initiate the “normalization” of their diplomatic relations after years of distancing and the War end in Ukraine. The Kremlin has said that Vladimir Putin, is willing to negotiate With his Ukrainian counterpart, Volodimir Zelenski, even if he doubted his legitimacy. “Putin himself has said on several occasions that if necessary negotiations with Zelenski,” said Dmitri Peskov, presidential spokesman, at his daily telephone press conference.
The two powers have marginalized the European Union and Ukraine of negotiations. The EU members are also divided because they have failed to demonstrate their unity before the negotiations between the US and Russia and, especially, before the Possible sending of European soldiers to Ukraine After the war ends. Donald Trump He already said that the Pentagon will not send American pacification troops to Ukraine and claimed that it is Europe that puts the soldiers to maintain security in the future.
After the United Kingdom expressed its willingness to contribute to kyiv’s security guarantees sending troops on the groundthe Swedish Minister of Foreign Affairs, Maria Malmer, also said that Sweden “does not rule out” to send peace forces to Ukraine. Germany, meanwhile, considered that these conversations were “premature” and Olaf Scholz even considered them “very inappropriate.” Europe, once again, divided.