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Saudis welcome chance to host US-Ukraine talks in Jeddah next week
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Posted on March 7, 2025
2 min readLast updated: January 25, 2026
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Published by Global Banking & Finance Review®
Posted on March 7, 2025
2 min readLast updated: January 25, 2026
Saudi Arabia will host US-Ukraine talks in Jeddah next week to address the Ukraine-Russia conflict. Zelenskiy will meet with Saudi leaders before the talks.
(Reuters) - Saudi Arabia welcomed on Friday the chance to host a meeting between the U.S. and Ukraine next week, its foreign ministry said, adding that the kingdom would continue to do its utmost to help end the Ukraine-Russia war.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Thursday he would travel to Saudi Arabia on Monday for a meeting with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman ahead of talks later in the week with U.S. officials.
A brief Saudi Foreign Ministry statement said the U.S.-Ukrainian talks would be held in the Red Sea city of Jeddah.
"The foreign ministry confirms the kingdom's continued efforts to achieve lasting peace to end the Ukrainian crisis."
U.S. President Donald Trump's special envoy, Steve Witkoff, had also said he was in discussions with Ukraine for a deal framework to end the three-year war with Russia, and a meeting was planned next week with the Ukrainians in Saudi Arabia.
In February, Riyadh hosted a meeting between U.S. and Russian officials to discuss ways to halt the deadliest conflict in Europe since World War Two. Ukraine was not included in those talks, raising concern in Kyiv and among its European allies.
Zelenskiy met Trump at the White House on February 28 but the encounter descended into acrimony when they clashed in front of the world's media over their approaches to peacemaking.
Days after the meeting, Trump paused military aid to Ukraine as well as intelligence-sharing with Kyiv.
Overnight on Friday, Russian forces damaged Ukrainian energy and gas infrastructure in their first major missile attack since Trump's move, piling pressure on Kyiv to accept a swift end to the war sought by the U.S. president.
(Reporting by Enas Alashray; editing by Tomasz Janowski and Mark Heinrich)
The meeting aims to facilitate talks between the U.S. and Ukraine to work towards achieving lasting peace and addressing the ongoing Ukrainian crisis.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy is set to travel to Saudi Arabia for discussions with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman and U.S. representatives.
In February, Saudi Arabia hosted a meeting between U.S. and Russian officials to discuss the conflict, although Ukraine was not included in those talks.
Russian forces recently damaged Ukrainian energy and gas infrastructure in a missile attack, increasing pressure on Kyiv to accept a swift resolution to the conflict.
The meeting between Zelenskiy and Trump at the White House turned contentious, with disagreements over their approaches to peacemaking and subsequent pauses in U.S. military aid to Ukraine.
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