Shafaq News/ US President DonaldTrump considered that Russia holds "the cards" in negotiations to endthe war in Ukraine, according to UK media outlets.
Speaking to the BBC, the USpresident said he believes Moscow wants the three-year Russia-Ukraine war toend. "I think the Russians want to see the war end, I really do. I thinkthey have the cards a little bit, because they've taken a lot of territory,” hetold reporters.
“They have the cards.”
On Tuesday, senior US and Russianofficials began talks in Riyadh to ease tensions between both countries and endthe Russia-Ukraine war. The meeting, attended by Saudi Foreign Minister PrinceFaisal bin Farhan and National Security Advisor Musaad Al-Aiban, paved the wayfor a potential summit between Presidents Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump inSaudi Arabia.
In the meeting, Russia insisted thatNATO revoke its 2008 commitment to eventually grant Ukraine membership in the US-ledalliance and rejected the notion of NATO forces serving as peacekeepers in anypotential ceasefire arrangement.
"We explained to our colleaguestoday what President Putin has repeatedly stressed: that the expansion of NATO,the absorption of Ukraine by the North Atlantic alliance, is a direct threat tothe interests of the Russian Federation, a direct threat to oursovereignty," Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov confirmed.
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