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Russia, US to name negotiators on ending Ukraine war

Saudi Arabia's Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan al-Saud receives US Secretary of State Marco Rubio at the Saudi Foreign Ministry headquarters in Riyadh on February 17, 2025. [AFP]

Russia and the United States on Tuesday agreed to establish teams to negotiate a path to ending the war in Ukraine after talks that drew a strong rebuke from Kyiv over its exclusion.

Washington noted European nations would have to have a seat at the negotiating table "at some point", following the first high-level official Washington-Moscow talks since the 2022 invasion of Ukraine.

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