Superior government source told BBC News that the Ukraine It has not been invited and does not send a delegation to the scheduled talks between Russia and the US, which are expected to take place in Saudi Arabia in the coming days.

Following the claim by the US Special Envoy in Ukraine, Keith Kloge, that Kiev will actually get involved in the negotiations, this does not seem to be the case at this initial stage.

The US also asked its European allies what would be needed by Washington to participate in Ukrainian security arrangements and to describe how they view the issue of permanent guarantees, according to a document seen by Reuters.

In the document, consisting of six points and questions, the US also ask which countries they could contribute to the guarantees, [ποιες] They would be willing to develop troops in Ukraine in the context of a peaceful settlement, and the magnitude of a possible power under European leadership.

They are also asked what governments are prepared to do to increase sanctions against Russia, including the rigorous application of existing sanctions.

In Saudi Arabia the White House Special Envoy

White House Special Envoy for the Middle East, Steve Whitkov, said today that he would go to Saudi Arabia later today with US National Security Advisor Mike Valts to have talks with a Russian official on the war.

It was the first confirmation of official lips for these talks in the Sunni kingdom, following recent reports on this issue.

“I’m going to go tonight,” Whitkov said of his trip to an interview with Fox News. “I will go there with the National Security Advisor and we will have meetings under the president’s instructions and hope we will record some really good progress.”

The upcoming talks in Saudi Arabia will be one of the first high -level face -to -face talks between Russian and US officials for years. They are intended to prepare the ground for a summit of US President Donald Trump and Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin.

Ukrainian leaders and officials in other European countries have publicly expressed their frustration and discomfort that the US government Trump has excluded them from some negotiations with the Russians.

Ukrainian officials said they were not invited to this meeting in Saudi Arabia, with Kiev saying that it would not be committed to any agreement resulting from any discussions in Riyadh.

Whitkov disagreed that the Ukrainians were cut off from talks with the Russians. In an interview with FOX, he stressed that Ukrainian officials met with high -ranking US officials during the Munich Conference on Security at the weekend. However, he did not say whether the Ukrainians were invited to meetings in Saudi Arabia.

“I don’t think anyone is excluding,” said the White House Special Envoy for the Middle East. “In fact, this is a inclusion of everyone,” he added.

Yesterday Republican MP Michael Macol said that US Secretary of State Marko Rubio, Valts and Whitkov will travel to Saudi Arabia to have peace talks about the Ukrainian.

What is Ukraine afraid in view of negotiations

Ukraine has always called the areas under Russian control “temporarily occupied territories”, insisting that it would eventually regain control over them. But this hope seems to be erasing.

Donald Trump’s statements this week that made it clear that Ukraine was “unlikely” to take back much of her occupied land during the peace negotiations she intends to carry out with Russian President Vladimir Putin caused panic. His comment came after a 90 -minute telephone contact with Putin last Wednesday.

Yuliya Kazdobina, a foreign policy expert at Think Tank Krainian Prism, said he does not believe that the Russian leader wants peace.

“We’ve had so many years of negotiations with the Russian side,” he told CNN. “Russia has a history of attacks and violations of agreements with Ukraine dating back decades. In 1994, Ukraine agreed to abandon its nuclear weapons in return for guarantees from the United States, the United Kingdom and Russia to respect Ukraine’s sovereignty and territorial integrity. In 2015, after illegally annexed Crimea and triggered the conflict in eastern Ukraine, Moscow signed a ceasefire agreement only to violate it repeatedly and then launch a complete scale invasion of Ukraine seven years later. We know that Russia can play well, but when it comes to concessions and make peace, they never make concessions, “Kazdobina said.

View from Kiev

Ukrainian President Volodimir Zelesnki gave his own response to Trump-Putin communication, saying that his country will not accept a peace agreement between the US and Russia without the involvement of Kiev.

“As an independent country we cannot accept any agreement without us. And I express it very clearly to our partners. We will not accept any bilateral negotiation for Ukraine without us, ” Zelenski said, adding that the fact that Trump first spoke to Putin “was not pleasant”.

The Russian forces currently occupy almost 20% of Ukraine’s territory, from the approximately 7% of Russia’s invasion of Russia in Ukraine.

Fears about repetition of the story

Crimea has been under Russian control since Moscow annexed it in 2014. Since then, Russia has imposed a brutal and repressive regime.

Maksym Vishchyk, a lawyer at the Global Rights Compliance, a non -profit organization that advises Ukrainian authorities on investigating and prosecuting international crimes, said Moscow has repeated the same pattern in other occupied territories.

“When Russia occupied the Crimean peninsula, a systematic targeting campaign launched communities or people who considered it to be an obstacle to the Russian campaign … with catastrophic impact on social fabric in general, but also on communities, families and individuals,” he told CNN.

“And Crimea was their book. The policies and standards and tactics (of Russia) implemented in Crimea were subsequently applied to other occupied territories. So we see the same patterns in all the occupied, both from 2014 and 2022. “

Hazardous precedent

Financial adviser Oleksandr Sokhatskyi told CNN that he believes that any agreement would be unacceptable if Ukraine’s borders change from what was before the war, due to the human cost of the years unnecessary.

The first line soldiers were also skeptical that the negotiations between Trump and Putin could produce a result that would have been pleasant to many Ukrainians.

Volodymyr Slayn, Commander of the Order in the 66th Mechanized Brigade, who is fighting near Lyman in the east of the country, said that the occupation of Ukraine by Russia could have dangerous consequences.

“It will create a precedent and show Russia that they can attack any country, understand its territory and make it unpunished in the future,” he said, adding that Russia could soon turn its attention to other smaller ones. Countries near her.

Putin has repeatedly clarified his goals: Wants to gain control of all Donetsk and Luhank areas of eastern Ukraine. But many in Ukraine are worried that even if he initially agrees on a ceasefire, he will eventually motivate further battles to achieve his final game.

“No one will prevent Putin from attacking us again and understanding another area or many more. If Europe and America do not help us, then Peace will now probably lead to war in a few years, “Sblen said.