美国和俄罗斯的高级别代表团将于周二在沙特阿拉伯开始关于乌克兰命运的谈判，谈判正在进行中，但没有乌克兰参加。
在美国国务院表示旨在讨论结束现已持续三年的战争的会谈之前，由国务卿马尔科·卢比奥率领的美国代表团会见了沙特阿拉伯国王王子穆罕默德·本·萨尔曼。
卢比奥的对手，俄罗斯外交部长谢尔盖拉夫罗夫证实，双边会谈将于周二在利雅得举行。
自从乔·拜登总统和俄罗斯总统弗拉基米尔·普京在俄罗斯入侵乌克兰之前在日内瓦会晤以来，莫斯科和华盛顿之间的会谈结束了大约三年的时间，两国之间没有高层接触。
根据美国国务院的说法，拉夫罗夫和卢比奥在上周普京和特朗普通话后，于周六通了电话。
尽管普京的一名发言人表示，会议将主要“致力于”恢复俄美关系的所有方面，但美国国务院发言人塔米·布鲁斯(Tammy Bruce)表示，会议将更专注于“更大的乌克兰问题”。
特朗普与普京的谈话结束后，布鲁斯称这次会议是“确定俄罗斯人是否认真以及他们是否在同一页上的第二步。”
泽连斯基周一表示，乌克兰不会承认没有基辅参与的协议
乌克兰总统泽连斯基没有被邀请，泽伦斯基周一表示，乌克兰“不能承认任何……没有我们参与的关于我们的协议，也不会承认这样的协议。”
“早些时候，在战争期间，与侵略者交谈被认为是禁忌，”乌克兰总统说。
在一系列外交活动中，法国总统埃马纽埃尔·马克龙周一在美俄接触之前召集了一次欧洲政府首脑会议。
一名白宫官员说，在欧洲会议之前，马克龙和特朗普通过电话交谈了近30分钟。这位官员称这次谈话是“友好的”,并表示谈话内容包括讨论乌克兰战争和周二的美俄双边会议。
白宫国家安全顾问迈克·华尔兹(Mike Waltz)周日表示，他将“驳斥……任何没有征求(乌克兰人)意见的说法。”
“他们绝对是。然而，归根结底，这将是在特朗普总统的领导下，我们结束这场战争，”华尔兹说，承认“他们可能不喜欢这些谈判中正在进行的一些顺序。”
泽连斯基本人正在中东，他星期一在那里会见了阿联酋官员，并计划在土耳其和沙特举行会晤。在利雅德，泽连斯基说，他将询问王储萨勒曼，他也是沙特首相，关于美俄会议。
在白宫推动的乌克兰和平谈判开幕之前，特朗普官员上周在慕尼黑安全会议上暗示了达成协议的潜在条款。
会议开始前，国防部长皮特·赫格塞斯(Pete Hegseth)称回到2014年俄罗斯入侵克里米亚之前的乌克兰边境是“不现实的”。这位部长表示，美国不会推动这个“虚幻的目标”——以及乌克兰加入北约。
泽连斯基在会上表示，乌克兰必须获得“北约，或者一个可靠的替代方案”的成员资格
他呼吁建立“欧洲武装力量”，因为特朗普政府要求欧洲增加国防支出。
在马克龙在巴黎匆忙组织的会议的与会者中，英国和瑞典首相表示，在达成潜在协议后，他们将对以维和身份在乌克兰实地派遣武装部队持开放态度。
英国首相基尔·斯塔默(Keir Starmer)在巴黎表示:“如果(乌克兰)达成和平协议，而且每个人都希望达成和平协议，那么这必须是一项持久的和平协议，而不仅仅是普京再次到来的暂停。”
“这里还有一个更广泛的部分，那就是欧洲的集体安全和防务，在这里，我认为我们面临着一个代际挑战。我们都必须站出来，”他补充道。
US and Russia set to begin high-stakes talks over Ukraine's fate
High-level delegations from the U.S. and Russia were set to begin talks in Saudi Arabia on Tuesday over the fate of Ukraine -- negotiations taking place -- without Ukraine.
Ahead of the talks that the State Department said were aimed to discuss ending the now three-year-long war, an American delegation headed by Secretary of State Marco Rubio met with Saudi Arabian CrownPrinceMohammed bin Salman.
Rubio's counterpart, Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov, confirmed the bilateral talks would take place in Riyadh on Tuesday.
The talks between Moscow and Washington end a period of some three years -- since President Joe Biden and Russian President Vladimir Putin met in Geneva before Russia invaded Ukraine -- without senior-level engagement between the two nations.
Lavrov and Rubio talked on the phone Saturday, according to the State Department, after a conversation between Putin and Trump last week.
While a spokesman for Putin said the meeting would be "devoted" primarily to "restoring the entire range of Russian-American relations," State Department spokeswoman Tammy Bruce said that the meeting would be more narrowly focused on the "larger issue of Ukraine."
After the Trump-Putin conversation, Bruce called the meeting the "second step to determine if the Russians perhaps are serious, and if they're on the same page."
Zelenskyy said Monday Ukraine 'will not recognize agreements' struck without Kyiv's participation
Ukrainian President Volodymr Zelenskyy was not invited and Zelenskky said Monday that Ukraine "cannot acknowledge any… agreements about us without us, and will not recognize such agreements."
"Earlier, during the war, it was considered taboo to talk to the aggressor," the Ukrainian president said.
Amid the flurry of diplomatic activity, French President Emmanuel Macron convened a meeting of European heads of government Monday ahead of the U.S.-Russia engagement.
Macron and Trump spoke via telephone for nearly 30 minutes prior to the European meeting, a White House official said. The official called the conversation "friendly" and said it included discussion of the war in Ukraine and the U.S.-Russia bilateral meetings Tuesday.
Mike Waltz, the White House national security adviser, said on Sunday he would "push back on … any notion that [Ukrainians] aren't being consulted."
"They absolutely are. And at the end of the day, though, this is going to be under President Trump's leadership that we get this war to an end," Waltz said, conceding "they may not like some of the sequencing that is going on in these negotiations."
Zelenskyy himself is in the Middle East, where he met with officials in the United Arab Emirates Monday, with meetings scheduled in Turkey and Saudi Arabia. In Riyadh, Zelenskyy said he'd ask Crown Prince Salman, who is also the Saudi prime minister, about the US-Russia meetings.
The opening of White House-facilitated talks on peace in Ukraine comes after Trump officials signaled potential terms for a deal at the Munich Security Conference last week.
Ahead of the conference, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth called a return to Ukrainian borders before Russia's 2014 invasion of Crimea "unrealistic." That "illusory goal" – and NATO membership for Ukraine – would not be promoted by the US, the secretary said.
Zelenskyy at the conference said Ukraine must be assured of membership in "NATO, or a reliable alternative."
He called for the building of the "armed forces of Europe" as the Trump administration presses for more European spending on defense.
Among the attendees of Macron's hastily organized meeting in Paris, the prime ministers of the United Kingdom and Sweden said they would be open to contributing armed forces on the ground in Ukraine in a peacekeeping capacity, after a potential deal is struck.
"If there is a peace deal [for Ukraine], and everybody wants a peace deal, then it's got to be a lasting peace deal, not just a pause for Putin to come again," U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer said in Paris.
"There's also a wider piece here which is the collective security and defense in Europe, and here, I think we've got a generational challenge. We've all got to step up," he added.
