Ukraine-Russia war live: Putin and US begin peace talks in Saudi Arabia after Moscow launches huge drone attack
Officials from the Donald Trump administration and from Vladimir Putin’s delegation are meeting in Riyadh today for talks aimed at ending Russia’s war in Ukraine.
The war-hit nation has said that no peace deal can be made on its behalf in the talks, to which Kyiv was not invited. European nations have also been eliminated in a shock process by the Trump administration.
Ukraine’s president Volodymyr Zelensky has said he will also travel to Saudi Arabia on Wednesday but that his trip was unrelated to the US-Russia talks.
Just hours before the controversial meeting began, Russia launched another mass overnight drone attack using 176 drones. A mother and her two children were injured and 38 civilian apartments evacuated in the central city of Dolynska, Ukrainian officials reported.
It came after Sir Keir Starmer demanded that the Trump administration provide a “backstop” to deter Russia from attacking Ukraine again after he attended an emergency meeting of European leaders in Paris, and vowed to send British troops to Ukraine to enforce a peace deal with Russia if necessary.
