Ukrainian officials will not attend Russia-US talks to be held in Saudi Arabia in the coming days, the BBC has learned

A government source says Ukraine has not been invited and will not send a delegation

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has repeatedly said he would not accept any deal struck without his country’s input

  • Empricorn@feddit.nl
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    21 days ago

    The US and the invading country are discussing “peace” terms without inviting the invaded country. WHAT THE FUCK!?

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    21 days ago

    No shit! I’d worry I’d be drinking polonium tea, get chopped up with a bone-saw and then buried on a golf course for a tax break.

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    The audacity of unilateral power plays masquerading as diplomacy. Washington and Moscow carving up spheres of influence over Riyadh’s tables while Kyiv’s chair sits empty—a grotesque pantomime of Cold War realpolitik resurrected. Zelensky’s absence isn’t oversight; it’s erasure, reducing a sovereign nation to collateral in someone else’s chess game.

    Europe’s emergency summit theater reeks of desperation—too little, too late. Macron’s huddle resembles headless chickens clucking over scraps after the fox already took the henhouse. The “army of Europe” pipe dream? A Hail Mary from a continent realizing its pathetic dependence on a capricious America now pivoting to flirt with its own boogeyman.

    Trump’s blunt instrument of imperial whims swings wildly, smashing decades-old alliances. Rubio jetting eastward isn’t diplomacy—it’s a surrender of principles to expediency, trading Ukrainian blood for cheaper gas and geopolitical trophies. The “broken” transatlantic bond isn’t fracturing—it’s shattered, ground into dust by the jackboots of opportunism.

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    20 days ago

    Putin is gonna promise the same mineral rights that Ukraine is negotiating with, as long as they eventually capture all of Ukraine. It’ll disable the peace talks and Trump will think he’s gonna make a ton of money by abandoning Ukraine.

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    21 days ago

    It’s a proxy war, and the US is “mask off” authoritarian now, so neither side gives a fcuk what Ukraine thinks.

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      20 days ago

      It’s not a proxy war. It’s an invasion with international support for the defence of the invaded nation.

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    Why they should in th first place? Did they ask Ukraine? Europe maybe? No! You can’t decided what will happen without Ukraine concent.

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    What do they expect? Does empire ever meet with its victims? Was there a palestinian present when these creeps decided to genocide?

    Ukraine’s biggest mistake has been allying with the enemy instead of palestinians and many other people struggling against the same evil.