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What are the key developments in US-Russia peace talks?
Significant talks between Russia and the U.S. take place in Saudi Arabia with the end of the Ukraine war on the table.
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The United States and Russia inched towards normalizing relations and ending the war in Ukraine following high-stakes meetings Tuesday.
Daily Wire senior editor Cabot Phillips is here to break down what comes next and what each side is looking to gain. Hey, Cabot.
So get us up to speed here. Yeah, some major diplomatic developments out of Saudi Arabia, where the U.S. and Russia met in earnest for the first time in three years. The two sides agreed Tuesday to appoint special teams of negotiators who would begin formal negotiations on a peace deal in Ukraine and worked on arranging a face-to-face meeting between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin. European allies and Vladimir Zelenskyy decried the meeting as an affront to Ukraine. But Secretary of State Marco Rubio says Trump is doing what no one else can do and what he was elected to do.
No one else has been able to bring something together like what we saw today because Donald Trump is the only leader in the world that can. So no one is being sidelined here. But President Trump is in a position that he campaigned on to initiate a process that could bring about an end to this conflict.
And to Rubio's point, it's certainly remarkable just how quickly these peace talks have come about. Trump and Putin had their first call of Trump's second term last week. And now seven days later, their top deputies are meeting face to face. Usually these things take much longer months to work out. The White House says it's proof that Trump is a swift mover when it comes to negotiating peace. Now the big question, just how productive was this meeting? Well, we're still a ways off from any substantive movement on the war itself, though the U.S. did call for a ceasefire on attacks on energy facilities from both sides while the talks move forward. But zooming out, the most consequential development It was simply the normalization of relations between the U.S. and Russia. U.S.
envoy to the Middle East, Steve Witkoff, called the meeting, quote, positive, upbeat, and constructive, while Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said it was, quote, very useful. So they were positive coming out as a sort of sign of goodwill. The two countries agreed Tuesday to allow staff to return to their respective embassies in Moscow and Washington.
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Rubio also made sure to remind Russia that if they agreed to a deal, the U.S. would be willing to engage in new economic partnerships. He also suggested Trump would be willing to lift sanctions on Moscow. So trying to sweeten the pot there.
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