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Ukraine will not recognize outcome of Russian-US talks in Saudi Arabia, Zelensky says

According to the Ukrainian president, his visit to Saudi Arabia in the coming days is not related to the Russian-American meeting on Tuesday

MOSCOW, February 17. /TASS/. Since Ukraine will not be at the upcoming talks between Russia and the US in Saudi Arabia, it will not recognize their outcome, Vladimir Zelensky said.

"Ukraine is not taking part. We were kept out of the loop. Ukraine views any talks on Ukraine without Ukraine as meaningless. We cannot recognize any agreements about us without us. And we will not accept any such agreements," the Ukrinform agency quoted him as saying at a news conference in the United Arab Emirates.

According to Zelensky, his visit to Saudi Arabia in the coming days is not related to the Russian-American meeting on Tuesday. "It (the visit - TASS) has nothing to do with what is going on in Saudi Arabia at the level of US and Russian representatives. Naturally, when I visit Saudi Arabia I will ask Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman what he knows about that, just out of curiosity," Zelensky added.

Russian presidential press secretary Dmitry Peskov said earlier that Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and presidential aide Yury Ushakov had been commissioned by President Vladimir Putin to fly to Riyadh to hold talks with US officials on Tuesday. The meeting is expected to focus on issues of restoring relations between Moscow and Washington.