Kiev rejects any peace mediation with Russia that it would not rule out ab initio any territorial loss, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba said today Friday from Lisbon.

“No peace plan or initiative, no mediation should involve a legal or real loss of Ukrainian territory,” he said at the end of a meeting with his Portuguese counterpart João Gomes Cravino.

“No initiative, no mediation should be based on the reasoning that we should freeze the conflict and then see what happens,” added Kuleba, speaking in English to reporters.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky met Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman in Jeddah today and thanked him for supporting Ukraine’s sovereignty.

As of March 2022, a week after the start of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the de facto leader of the Gulf monarchy had called for a “political solution” to the conflict and offered to mediate during a phone call with the Russian president Vladimir Putin.

“Any mediation should lead in full recovery of Ukraine’s territorial integrity,” the head of Kyiv’s diplomacy underlined today.

Couleba flew to Lisbon to attend the highly confidential meeting of the Bilderberg Club, which is being held in the Portuguese capital until Sunday this year.

Ukraine, Russia, NATO and transnational threats are among the topics of conversation at this private meeting, which features political and economic figures from Europe and North America.

NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg and the head of European diplomacy are among the list of almost 130 participants presented by the organizers.