The talks in Saudi Arabia, aimed at improving ties and negotiating an end to the war in Ukraine, represented a rapid and major change in American foreign policy under President Donald Trump.

Mr Trump has no clear plan, and his options range from cutting off Ukraine to ramping up military aid and sanctions. The dance between the American president and Mr Putin took another step in Riyadh,

Russia's foreign minister Sergei Lavrov and US Secretary of State Marco Rubio are meeting in the Saudi capital Riyadh, but Ukraine has not been invited.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio is in Saudi Arabia to address the two big international crises of the moment, the war in Gaza and the war in Ukraine.

Top U.S. and Russian officials convened in the Saudi capital of Riyadh on Tuesday to discuss improving bilateral relations and negotiating an end to The four-and-a-half-hour meeting marked the most extensive contact between the two adversaries since Moscow’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine began in 2022,

As Europeans talked the possibility of contributing peacekeepers to back any Ukraine peace deal, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov also said in Riyadh that Moscow would not accept the deployment of NATO troops there,

Donald Trump has signalled there should be elections in Ukraine as part of a peace deal with Russia, in his first public remarks after the US held high-level talks with Moscow in Riyadh. In remarks critical of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s handling of the war,

Your guide to what the 2024 US election means for Washington and the world Donald Trump appeared to blame Ukraine for the war with Russia and signalled Kyiv should hold elections, hours after the US held high-level talks with Moscow in Riyadh.

The talks between US Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, concluded with Rubio confirming that the nations would reopen missions in Washington and Moscow.

The president was answering reporters' questions at his Mar-a-Lago residence in Florida, where a BBC journalist asked whether Ukrainians might feel "betrayed" after not being invited to the talks in Riyadh The president is now asked about what role Elon Musk has within his administration,

Secretary of State Marco Rubio said his team and Kremlin negotiators agree in Saudi Arabia on four broad principles moving forward to help negotiate peace between Russia and Ukraine and the ongoing dialogue.