From breitbart.com
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Tuesday said he postponed a visit to Saudi Arabia to express his disapproval of the United States and Russia beginning bilateral negotiations to end the war in Ukraine.
“We were not invited to this Russian-American meeting in Saudi Arabia. It was a surprise for us. I don’t want any coincidences, so I’m not going to Saudi Arabia,” Zelensky said after a meeting with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Ankara.
By “coincidences,” Zelensky evidently meant that he did not want his planned visit to Saudi Arabia to be mistaken as an endorsement of the meetings held between U.S. and Russian diplomats in Riyadh this week.
“The Russian-American meeting in Saudi Arabia came as a surprise to us, just as it did to many others. Yes, we saw the media coverage, but I don’t know who will stay, who will leave, or where anyone is going. To be honest, I don’t really care. What matters to me is that our partners take time to think about us,” he said.
“Any country has a bilateral track with other countries. Please, you can discuss anything, but you can’t make a decision on how to end the war in Ukraine without Ukraine,” he insisted.
Zelensky said he has rescheduled his trip to Riyadh for March 10, with the approval of Saudi Arabia’s de facto chief executive, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (MBS).
Sources “familiar with the matter” told Reuters on Tuesday that Zelensky “didn’t want to appear to give anything that happened in Riyadh any legitimacy.”
Somewhat awkwardly for Zelensky, his host President Erdogan chimed in to say he supports President Donald Trump’s initiative to end the war in Ukraine.
“There is a diplomatic initiative led by Mr. Trump aimed at ending the war swiftly through negotiations. This approach aligns with the policy Turkey has been pursuing for the past three years,” the Turkish leader said.
Erdogan later said he would like to host another round of peace talks, with Russia, the U.S., and Ukraine in attendance.
The meeting in Riyadh involved Secretary of State Marco Rubio and his opposite number from Moscow, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, plus other top diplomatic officials from both countries. Both sides seemed pleased with the outcome of these preliminary talks, as did MBS, who was not involved in the discussions but won some international praise for making them possible.
“We weren’t just listening to each other, but we heard each other. I have reason to believe that the American side started to better understand our positions,” Lavrov said after meeting with Rubio. source
Maybe Trump is wising up on Z-man’s real character. Since Trump is apparently cutting off the zman’s OBiden type approved “cut” of the billions sent to zman for his silence on OBiden’s & family’s nefarious dealings in Ukraine. Maybe the jig is finally up on zman. Then again I can’t figure why Trump is seemingly cuddling up to Putin who also is a dictator/jerk as well.
That’s my 4 cents worth…2 cents+ inflation.
Zelenskyy is just as bad as Putin. He’s a Nazi lover and a tyrant.
Sorry I had to say that but it’s how I feel.
Zelensky is actually probably worse: he gives me the creeps, whilst Putin simply makes me feel solemn. Putin is shrewd, and one might never really know what is going on in his mind. He might even be actually very evil (I don’t know — it is very hard to filter out Western media propaganda from whatever one hears about him); but he does at least have dignity, and thinks the West stinks because of their wokie-dokie beastliness.
And Zelensky is just a very silly twerp, picked out by his handlers to do a good job of being a useful and arrogant idiot. He seems to have done very well at his job so far, when considered in those terms. Again, one has to filter out the propaganda — a task that can be quite difficult — but mostly the media are not shy of showing him as a dozy clodpoll posing as a statesman, for they and their masters think he’s really cool like that 😀
Remember him dancing with high-heels on with other gay men. It made me SICK
Somebody has to tell the truth & at least I appreciate it.
God bless you brother
Zelensky is not a good guy at all. He is a terrible person and shameful of US media don’t talk about this man. US mainstream media is making me sick.
I agree with your every word, brother