Secretary of State Marco Rubio and other top US officials will meet their Russian counterparts in Saudi Arabia today to begin discussing a path toward ending the war in Ukraine, according to reports. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said his country had not yet been invited to participate.
The meeting follows a call between President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin last week and is the latest in the Trump administration's swift effort to draw down US involvement in the conflict. US officials in recent days have called on Europe to assume more control over its security situation, warned against Ukraine's pending NATO membership, and more.
The shifting dynamics come amid an uncertain time for Western Europe, with Germany—the bloc's largest economic power—set to hold snap elections Sunday. Current Chancellor Olaf Scholz's Social Democratic Party has fallen to third place (see polls), behind the center-right Christian Democrats and the nationalist-populist Alternative for Germany (abbreviated as AfD).
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