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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said in a "Meet the Press" interview aired Sunday that he would "never accept" decisions made by the U.S. and Russia about Ukraine's future, even as the two nations appear poised to engage in peace talks this week.
The big picture: President Trump's Middle East envoy, Steve Witkoff, confirmed Sunday on Fox News' "Sunday Morning Futures" that he and National Security Adviser Michael Waltz will travel to Saudi Arabia to "hopefully make some really good progress" on the Russia-Ukraine peace process.
Zelensky had said hours before that Ukraine was not invited to participate in any peace talks, a notion which Witkoff pushed back against to Fox News' Maria Bartiromo.
"Ukraine is part of the talks," Witkoff said, adding, "I don't think this is about excluding anybody."
Zoom out: European allies had also expressed concern Ukraine wouldn't get an equal say in peace talks after Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth shocked NATO allies by declaring key bargaining chips off the table.
Ephraim Kishon has a satirical piece in which he starts by describing the historical events at the Munich conference but slowly, over the course of the piece, he starts replacing the historical names with 1960's American, Arab and Israeli politicians until it's finally about the Americans and Arabs deciding on how to divide up Israel while the Israelis are left to fume in the hall.
ReplyDeleteAnd yet real life is once again stranger than fiction