Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday that Ukraine would not be excluded from negotiations to end the war, but success would depend on raising the level of trust between Moscow and Washington.

President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday praised the outcome of Russia-U.S. talks in Saudi Arabia and said that Ukraine would not be excluded from negotiations to end the war. "Without increasing the level of trust between Russia and the United States,

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And Trump’s attack on Zelensky, who was hailed as a hero in the United States for resisting Russia’s Blitzkrieg on Kyiv early in the war, was a graphic sign of how the new American administration has reversed Washington’s stance of supporting the victim of the invasion and is now rewarding the aggressor.

As peace talks opened in Saudi Arabia, President Trump made clear that the days of isolating Russia are over and suggested that Ukraine was to blame for being invaded.

Keith Kellogg, the U.S. special envoy for Ukraine and Russia, has arrived in Kyiv for talks with President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and military commanders

Even before the talks, European politicians accused Trump of handing free concessions to Moscow last week by ruling out NATO membership for Ukraine and saying it was an illusion f